Halted system, tried cp, got "read only file system",
then ran bcheckrc, that mounted root, and I copied it
back.
Thanks to all who sent in their suggestions.
Couldn't locate cd!! .....single user worked!
Those are the gotcha's of using sudo!! when u make a
mistake, there is no going back.
Like in this case, if I had root shell, I would simply
copy it back as many suggested.
For those unaware of sudo, once one is in the file
sudoers, he can execute commands as root, by doing
sudo <command> (it checks ur auth. everytime), so
after moving passwd passwd.old, it couldn't validate
me. This is a nice way to make sure all commands
executed as root as logged, by user name.
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I don't think the single-user system requires
the password file, so that should be sufficient. You
might also want to look at the command vipw.
ORIGINAL POST (UPDATE):
--- Tru64 User <tru64user_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> I was using sudo...so i dont have root shell.
> I cannot simply do a mv passwd.old passwd.
> One of those days....duhh!!!
> I guess I will need cd to get root shell, mount etc,
> and mv it back.....hoping for simply single user
> mode
> for it to work....
>
>
> --- Tru64 User <tru64user_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > while maintaining passwd files, instead of cp
> passwd
> > passwd.old, I did a mv!!!!
> > dont have root shell.
> > Will i require cd to recover from this, or just
> > single
> > user mode?
> > thanks
> >
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