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From: adh@anumb.UUCP (a.d.hay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: fsck deleted /etc/passwd on 3b2
Message-ID: <339@anumb.UUCP>
Date: 30 Aug 88 12:30:27 GMT
References: <36445@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <20796@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: adh@anumb.UUCP (a.d.hay)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - MV
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In article <20796@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) writes:
>narem-james@yale.uucp writes:
>>     Fsck deleted /etc/passwd on boot of my 3b2.
>>
>Put in your Essential floppy #1, boot it, it'll give you a short (4
>item?) menu.
[]
>Give yourself a one-line passwd file:
>	root::0:0:Administrator:/:
[]

one more thing --
we +++ALWAYS+++ keep a copy of passwd in opasswd for just this occasion!
then we just /tmp/bin/cp /tmp/etc/opasswd /tmp/etc/passwd and we're
back in business.

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