From: Keith Rohrer (rohrer@fncrd6.fnal.gov)
Date: 06/01/93 

From: rohrer@fncrd6.fnal.gov (Keith Rohrer)
Subject: Re: linux bootup as root without entering password
Date: 1 Jun 1993 14:30:01 GMT

Just boot off your installation floppies, mount your root hard drive partition,
and cp /etc/passwd /mnt/etc/passwd (or wherever you mounted the root partition).
If you did something more serious than just "overwriting" /etc/passwd, you might want to e2fsck the partition first.

        Keith 

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