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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Century Gothic"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic"'>I’m using RHEL4. I had a
system with RAID1/5 where the RAID 5 disks were uninitialized, so I went into
LVM and created some logical volumes out of them. I didn’t know
what to mount them to so I set them to mount to / until I figured that
out. I created the volumes, then locked the machine and went to lunch.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Century Gothic"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic"'>When I came back my password wasn’t
working, the lock screen won’t let me change login, and when I SSH into
the machine my root and user passwords aren’t being accepted. Ctl-Alt-F1
gives me a login prompt only, when I enter something it just gives me another
login prompt, no password request. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Century Gothic"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic"'>Looks like I messed up.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Century Gothic"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic"'>I’m not sure how to proceed now.
Any suggestions? I’m not exactly sure how I messed up, but I guess
the OS can’t find /etc/passwd now? I’m afraid to cold reboot in
case it makes the problem worse. </span></font></p>
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