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From: alan@hactar.demon.co.uk (Alan Benson)
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Subject: Corrupt password files help needed.
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Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 16:23:12 +0000
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Hi,

Due to what I will freely admit is my own stupidity I have managed to
corrupt all the password files, ie passwd, master.passwd, pwd.db and
spwd.db. I've managed to get back into the system by booting from the
distribution disks and mounting the drive. I can then rename the rc
and rc.local files so that the machine boots to a prompt. With rc and
rc.local I get the login prompt, but cant login! I've tried copying
files from another system, it didn't help. Of course I cant run
anything to update the files because you need to be root :(

I would really love to hear any suggestions anyone has, thanks in
advance.

dv
Alan
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