Deleted ROOT account

Ashrack · 09-17-2006, 12:00 PM

I was trying to hack into the root account in my VMWARE's UBUNTU install.

But apperantly instead of doing the following things in VMWARE's UBUNTU I did it on my real desktop UBUNTU DAPPER installation.
This is what I did:
I deleted the root line from /etc/shadow, /etc/passwd
and after did:

Code:

userdel -r root

So now am without root, SUDO gives me the following:

Code:

tom@tomi:~$ sudo
sudo: no passwd entry for root!

So what can I do?

Matir · 09-17-2006, 12:13 PM

Boot from a LiveCD and repair the /etc/passwd file by re-adding the line you deleted. Easiest way would be to just restore from a backup.