SOLVED: Re: No Password for Root
Brandon, that's it! I had noticed the same lack of the _x_
in the /etc/passwd file. After putting one in and rebooting,
voila! It's fixed. Thank you. And BTW, /etc/shadow was all
there. As for the missing _x_, I have no idea where it went, and
I did not remove it manually.
Wow! What a lesson on this system...learned alot. Thank all
of you for your replies, because each reply taught us something.
Art
On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 10:34:27AM -0500, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
> Out of curiosity, does this problem machine have an /etc/shadow file? I'm
> thinking shadow passwords may be turned on (via shadowconfig) but that
> /etc/passwd doesn't have the corresponding 'x' value in the password
> field.
>
> Just a guess,
> Brandon
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