On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Goldfinch, Andrew wrote: > OK guys, here's a challenge. > > I have managed to rename root to Root in my /etc/passwd. > I cannot logon as Root as my /etc/shadow refers to the uname not uid. > Am I royally screwed? I am on SunOS 5.8
And you ask this on a Linux list exactly WHY? ObHint - boot from your install CD to a system, then fsck and mount appropriate slice, edit /etc/passwd to put root instead of Root, shutdown, reboot, viola. Exact details of how to do this are left as an exercise to the reader. Renaming the Superuser account is a dumbshit idea. Don't do it again. DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
