Interesting problem. I wonder what permissions your /etc/passwd file have ?
Do you have shadowed passwd too ?
Assuming that you are able to modify the /etc/passwd file, add a line same as
one of the user names and change the user name to root. Also change you uid:gid
to 0:0 , users will be something like 500:500 or there abouts.. change you
login dir as /root.
Or at the linux boot prompt enter linux single
and fix your password file or adduser root .
Hope that ives u some idea
Thanks
shourya
Jayanta Mukherjee wrote:
> Dear Members
>
> I am using Linux SuSe6.1 and facing some acute problem like unable to login
> as root , I can login as different user name. I have checked the etc/passwd
> file and found that root line has been not there in file. by any means this
> has been deleted or damaged. Is there any way to recover this w/o
> reinstalling? I donot have any backup of that file.
> Any help will be appreciated.
> Thanks In Advance
>
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>
> Jayanta
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