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Subject:    Re: [BusyBox] can't add root user: passwd: unknown uid 0
From:       Rob Landley <rob () landley ! net>
Date:       2005-07-30 0:26:31
Message-ID: 200507291926.31939.rob () landley ! net
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On Friday 29 July 2005 10:24, michael@michaelshiloh.com wrote:
> Thanks Chris and others who responded. I understand now that perhaps my
> approach was wrong. The real issue I was having was that even before I
> messed with these files the user "root" was not found. The steps I took
> were to try to remedy that.

echo root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/sh > /etc/passwd
chmod 755 /etc/passwd

Root has always been a special case...

Rob
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