On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 02:55:18PM +0000, Miles mentioned:
> I have a leetle problem here. Someone in the lab (No Shane, NOT me this
> time!) has somehow managed to banjax one of our Ultra-10s by
> removing a pkg they shouldn't have (I think). This is resulting in stuff
> like:
>> cleo:> su
> su: unknown id: root
> cleo:> file /etc/passwd
> /etc/passwd: empty file
Ya great wet lettuce.
Best bet is to boot to single user mode from CD;
OK boot cdrom -s
# mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /a # (whatever the root part is on U10s)
# cp /etc/passwd /a/etc/
# cp /etc/shadow /a/etc/
# umount /a
# init 6
Then you should be able to log in as root, and change what you want.
Kate
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