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From: gromyko@moscvax.CCCP (Central Committee)
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Subject: Re: HELP is being needed
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Date: Fri, 29-Mar-85 15:46:03 EST
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In article <522@kremvax.CCCP> gorbachv@kremvax.CCCP (Current Premier) writes
>    I am having BIG problem at my site.  Only person with root
>access die a fews weeks ago from bad cold.  I, being new
>administrator, am needing root permission.  What we do?

We have 20 Vax 11/780's here at the Moscow Institute of Interstellar
Nuclear Warfare and have encountered this problem frequently when
system administrators become non-persons (refuseniks, dissidents and
other criminals against the state).  Just follow the instructions in
the Great Patriotic Bolshevix Programmers Manual Volume 2c 
chapter "Stealing, Copying, Installing and Operating
4.2Bolshevik Siberian Distribution" (State Procedure 1.01.02.A) dealing
with bringing the capitalist machine in single individual mode.  Then
type:

# sed 's/root:.............:/root::/' /etc/passwd > /etc/passwd.new
# mv /etc/passwd.new /etc/passwd
# ^D

Then please to post new dialup number for kremvax to Usenet comrade.

				From the workers paradise,
				..!moscvax!gromyko