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From: shankar@hpclscu.HP.COM (Shankar Unni)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Stupid Mistake!
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Date: 13 Jun 88 20:22:03 GMT
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There's always the radical solution: If you have another (like) machine around,
mount this machine's root disk as an extra file system on the other machine.

Now edit /<extrafs>/etc/passwd.

Voila!

--
Shankar

P.S. Don't forget to move the root disk back :-) :-)