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Bryan Elliott redhat at ellijay.net
Thu Apr 29 05:23:59 UTC 2004


Huan Deng wrote:

>hi:
>    just now i deleted user root by mistake.And now i can't add users and do many other things.What should i do to recover root?
> thank u..~
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>              Huan Deng
>              hdeng at microscience.com.cn
>              2004-04-29
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You have to edit the passwd file and the shadow file to add root back
with proper gid# you can do this in singleuser mode. just copy your
password part of the shadow file in for root and use it or once you have
it added back us passwd to change it back to what it should be.





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