Red Hat

I guess you missed...
Removing the shadow file is not a real great idea. I'm not sure that Linux can function without it.

delete the md5 hash from /etc/shadow

EXAMPLE:-
root:$1$VB6ha9a1RHfQ8vpcA.:14030:0:99999:7:::
delete md5 hash only.
root::14030:0:99999:7:::

sorry for late reply ....!!

to recover root pwd , what i did was boot in single user mode then did

1)pwconv that created shadow and pwd file in /etc then

2)sync - that synced both files shadow and pwd , after that i re-booted the system again in single user mode

3)then re-set passwd for root ........... hurray

hi

now that i have loged in as root and have been navagating for some time i did a init 6 or 8 not remembering that seems to have created a problem in re-starting system and that is throwing some error as
"please select Y to have file system check as there is some discrepency "

now if we select Y that starts file system checkup and at the end it re-boots the system , this is a looping thing .........

and if we dont select Y for fs check then it freazes the system only at cnt +D it gose to next line and then re-boots again this is also is a looping thing...........

plz check .....

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I fsck cannot repair the disk, you will probably need to replace it. For emergency troubleshooting, perhaps you can boot from a CD or USB stick again.

perhaps i can boot in single user mode after modefing the kernel options.
but i want it to be repair, permenantly not tempr..
i think the disk have to be re-structured for unix partation .... what say ?

techbravo