> 
> Very very trivial. As u know when u boot into single mode, yr filesystem
> is read-only.(Mandrake behaves diffrently). First boot into single user
> mode and at the prompt :
> 

 What happens if single user mode runs sulogin, and root user has expired?


 If /etc/passwd,/etc/shadow is damaged or non-existent the I know (man)
that sulogin puts you in a root shell directly. But, what happens if root
user has expired.


> # mount / -o remount,rw
> 
> This will remount the "root" as read-write. So now u can go into
> /etc/passwd and add the deleted entry like
> 
> root:x:0:0::/root:/bin/bash
> 
> Save the file and reboot. That's it !!. U can use chage to "renew" yr
> expired root account, if that's yr problem
> 
> Hope this helps..Any guys interested in making a LOST of it ??
>  
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