unknown user: root

[Aaron Konstam]

On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 20:19 +0200, Marian POPESCU wrote:
> Randy Wyatt wrote:
> 
> Thanks for your reply!
> 
> By some strange coincidence, it happened on a HP system!
> It is a Compaq SR1438FR.
> 
> > ls -ltr /etc/passwd
> 
> The /etc/passwd file seems to be OK. It has 2273 bytes and it shows on the
> first line root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
> 
> How did you manage to repair your server?
> 
> Marian
> 
We still don't know about the passwd for root. What is the line in the
shadow file for root?
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