The solution to my problem (listed below) was pretty simple, but the reason
it took me so long to figure it out was the following:
In the /etc/shadow file, after deleting the password I also deleted the rest
of the line.
I was left with the following:
root:
daemon:NP:6445::::::
Without the colons as field seperators the system was unable to log me in.
I was unaware of this...!!!
Thanks to the kind people listed below, who were all very generous with
their advice.
John D Groenfeld
David Evans
Kent Perrier
Buddy Lumpkin
Jeff Cole
Joel Fisher
David Brierley
Nasser Manesh
Chris Cariffe
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Murphy, Morgan [mailto:morgan.murphy@bankofamerica.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 5:22 PM
> To: sun-managers@sunmanagers.ececs.uc.edu
> Subject: root password gone!
>
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> D'ont ask why, but... I deleted the root password from the
> /etc/shadow file.
> I had expected to reboot the machine, and log in as root without being
> prompted for a password.
> Sure enough, I wasn' t prompted for a password, however I
> couldn't log into
> the system :(
> I tried: boot cdrom -s, and mounting the root partition.
> However I couldn't do anything to the /etc/passwd, and
> /etc/shadow files
> which would enable me to login.
>
> Any thoughts, would be much appreciated.
>
>
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