[plug] root account

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, Jon  Miller wrote:

> On a server, we are missing the root account.  Can I recreate it and assign the uid =0?

Yup.

If you have an shell or account that has permissions to write to /etc/passwd
then just add:
root:CRYPTED_PW:0:0::/root:/bin/bash
to /etc/passwd and then you'll be happy again.  Unless you already know the
answer you should be asking yourself how the root account got deleted?


Yours Tony

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