[Sunhelp] hosed up root login... HELP!

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sunhelp at orn.net [mailto:sunhelp at orn.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 12:38 PM
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [Sunhelp] hosed up root login... HELP!
> 
> 
> > Thank you everyone for the quick responses... unfortunatly 
> the Admin has
> > went ahead and dropped the Sol7 CD in and started rebuilding the box
> > already.
> 
> Is this guy by any chance a Windows NT turned Solaris admin?  
> The old -
> "blow it all away to fix one little thing" sounds awfully 
> familiar.  If he
> had been more careful and persistant the cdrom boot WOULD 
> have worked just
> fine.  It pays to have patience, sometimes.  Now the next 
> time that this
> happens to him, he *still* won't know how to properly fix it. 
>  For people
> who cannot resist the urge to edit the passwd file directly, Sun made
> admintool -> you cannot ruin the root shell using admintool.  
> Food for his
> thought.

You mean that there's another way to manage users than editing /etc/passwd?
Besides, if you don't break it, how you gonna learn anything?
	Greg