Thanks to the many many people who helped me with this. I bootes to single
user mode
like most people reccomended and saw that the passwd file and the shadow
were both 0 bytes.
I edited the passwd file and restored the lost files from backups. All is
well. Thanks to everybody for
being so helpful.
Steve
---------------------- Forwarded by STEVE MAHER/VEND/VA/Bell-Atl on
09/22/98 08:47 AM ---------------------------
STEVE MAHER
09/21/98 01:13 PM
To: sun-managers@sunmanagers.ececs.uc.edu
cc:
Subject: emergency:can't find user root in passwd file
I had to reboot and I'm getting "error: can't find user root in passwd
file"
its an E450 w/ 2.51. Any experiences with this?
Steve
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