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From: "Valentin Bud" <valentin.bud@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Locked myself out.. AGAIN!!
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On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Redd Vinylene <reddvinylene@gmail.com>wrote:

> On this dedicated box here I made the mistake of adding a comment to
> root's entry in my password file:
>
> root:*:0:0::/root:/bin/sh # What I thought would be a harmless comment.
>
> Now I can't su to root. And my ISP is closed on Sundays. Is there any
> way I can fix this on my own?


Do you have sudo ? If yes (re)edit the file and change it back how it was.
If not others might come with some opinions :|.

a great day.
v


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