Re: root account inaccessible, was 'login problems on change of default shell'

To: John Aten <welcome.to.eye.o.rama@gmail.com>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: root account inaccessible, was 'login problems on change of default shell'
From: John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com>
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 20:06:11 -0500
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John Aten writes:
> sudo: unknown user: root sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin

Ok, then you have to boot the CD and mount the disk.  Then just edit the
file with a text editor.

-- 
John Hasler 
jhasler@newsguy.com
Elmwood, WI USA

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