Thanks god , we had one terminal window with root login. and Yes, we copied a local system's /etc/passwd file to our server ( to maintain the entries for Apache, mysql etc) and then added the entries for other users.....
Thanks all of you..... system is running successfully. Dheeraj Anand ----- Original Message ----- From: Kingsly John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: LIH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 12:27 PM Subject: Re: [LIH] Urgent, /etc/passwd file deleted > On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, mukund wrote: > > |If you are logged in as user, > |create /etc/passwd with one entry > > Not possible ... /etc is not world writeable. > > |root:::::/root:/bin/sh > |Test if root can login from another tty, > |Then try to recover the original file. > > He would never get to this stage! > > Kingsly > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-india-help mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
