Hey, try this: Load up your boot disk and then System Installation. Put the live cdrom (disk 4) in your cd-rom. Boot the rescue system (it will be a choice from your menu). It will boot the system off the cd-rom and loads the OS into the ramdisk. After that, mount the hard drive with your root file system (or where /etc/passwd exists) to some mopunt point on the rescue system (/mnt works). Then, if you totally want to restore your old /etc/passwd file, copy /etc/passwd over the old version (in this case /mnt/etc/passwd). Shutdown the system properly and boot off your normal root system on the harddrive. As it loads, you will get the prompts to enter give root a password, if you desire, just like after and initial install. I hope that helps you out, svet On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Ganbayar Aleksei wrote:

Hi It seems that i`ve lost my root password. When i try "su" I get message "Sorry" Does anybody know how to recover /etc/passwrd with user account. Please help!!

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