Re: Lost Login after running e2fsck how to repair

[Jonathan Schmitt <other.list@detla.de>]

Hallo,
>Is there any way to reinstall the root user?? 
well basically, that's the problem, lfs users have to deal with during 
install. I think (but You might get more acurate descriptions from
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ )
their way is to create the passwd file at first, than chroot into the system 
and do a "passwd" for the root user. Another way to lock Yourself out would 
be the "nologin" file, but I think, at least woody clears this file at every 
system start. If You can chroot into that file, try a "su" into a normal 
user. If that's working, You know Your users are still there. You could also 
try to add a new user and look, whether he can log on.
   js
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