SOLVED: Re: No Password for Root

[Art Lemasters <dream@luvmusl.net>]

     Brandon, that's it!  I had noticed the same lack of the _x_
in the /etc/passwd file.  After putting one in and rebooting,
voila!  It's fixed.  Thank you.  And BTW, /etc/shadow was all
there.  As for the missing _x_, I have no idea where it went, and
I did not remove it manually.

     Wow!   What a lesson on this system...learned alot.  Thank all
of you for your replies, because each reply taught us something.

Art

On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 10:34:27AM -0500, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
> Out of curiosity, does this problem machine have an /etc/shadow file?  I'm
> thinking shadow passwords may be turned on (via shadowconfig) but that
> /etc/passwd doesn't have the corresponding 'x' value in the password
> field.
> 
> Just a guess,
> Brandon
> 
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