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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: re-install root Date: 17 Jun 1997 09:09:54 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 13 Message-ID: <5o5k92$6b2@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <33A5894A.1B74@ford.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:7016 Russ Witte <rwitte2@ford.com> wrote: > I deleted the userid "root" from my machine. (What was I > thinking!) I can't seem to adduser -g 0 -u 0 root (unknown user). What > do I need to do to get the system running properly again? Run single-user, make your / writeable, (mount your /usr if you want vi,) run vipw. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j