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Operating Systems Solaris Unable to login as a User or Root on one client
# 8  
Old 03-10-2009
fsck -y or
fsck -m
# 9  
Old 03-19-2009
Well we do a custom installation with jumpstart, Then we use managesoft to push packages to the systems. 99% of the time there is no problem and the system will operate correctly there after. Up until recently some select clients and a server will have the shadow file removed contents removed leaving a 0kb file.
This renders the system unusable. they can't login with any account since there is no shadow file.

Now besides going to the site which is 13 hours away and doing a boot -s with a Solaris 10 DVD is there another way remotely that I can try to recover this shadow file?
# 10  
Old 03-19-2009
How do I check if I am using pam. I have a pam.conf file in /etc if that means anything
# 11  
Old 03-19-2009
The pwconv command I could not use since the shadow file is missing entirely and the single user mode is not working. Unless I am looking at this command the wrong way
# 12  
Old 03-19-2009
the pwconv command works.

For the test i vi the /etc/shadow file
then i made sure it was 0kb then did a reboot
then stop+a
boot -s
then it dropped me into #
then i did pwconv
then did a passwd my 2 user accounts
rebooted
then i could login. Thanks for the help
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