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Re: root entry commented

Knoppix is a pretty neat rescue CD, you can copy the /etc/passwd from the
Knoppix environment to your partition where your /etc resides and insert
the missing line.

Samantha

 On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Haijin Yan wrote:

> Hi,
>   I have a stupid question here. When I setting up NIS on my Linux box,
> I mistakenly commented out the root entry in the local passwd file.
> so now I can not do anything whenever root priviledge is required because
> there is no root in my linux.
>   Do you have any idea how to reinstall root from this case?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> -Haijin
>
>
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