On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 09:16:02AM +0800, lianliming wrote: > Hi all, > After a system halt, i find all the users in my system seems been > lost. I can't login in as any id. > I tried to use linux single mode to boot. but after system setup, > the system give me a prompt said "you have no name". I find my > "/etc/passwd" file has become a binary file full of something unreadable. > So what should i do now? > i don't want to reinstall the system since i don't have much time. > > Thank you for suggestions. > Try "linux init=/bin/bash", and copy /var/backups/passwd.bak to /etc/passwd, and /var/backups/shadow.bak to /etc/shadow If that doesn't work, boot with a Debian install CD in rescue mode.
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