Summary: /etc/passwd corrupted

Thanks to all. The correct method was to boot from cd as single user, mount the root partition on /a and edit /a/etc/passwd. I had the misconception that on boot up from cd the root password was 
required. Thank to all those who replied.

Rgds
Konrad

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><konazz@vodafone.com.mt>@sunmanagers.org on 10/23/2003 08:20:21 AM
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>Subject:    /etc/passwd corrupted
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>Dear all,
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>I messed up with /etc/passwd as by mistake I configured the shell as
>/sbin/bash and since this shell does not exist I having the reply : no
>shell. I cannot login as root. Any ideas will help.
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>rgds
>Konrad
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