Re: Oh dear, lost all my passwords!!!

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 03/26/04 

Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 21:18:34 +0100

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Tommy Reynolds <TommyReynolds@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 14:00:06 +0000, users wrote:

> > Well none of my passwords are being accepted!
> >
> > I think this may have been necause I was playing around and I did
> > "./new-users /etc/passwd" or alike. I wasn't root when I did this,
> > but this is all I can think of that I could have done.
> >
> > How can I recover my passwd file, I can't log on at all!?!?!? :(

> Calm down. Happens all the time.

[..]

> If you use LILO (and if you are, why?):

Grub lacks the '-R' switch, until then I prefer lilo.

- --
Michael Heiming - RHCE (GPG-Key ID: 0xEDD27B94)

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