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Old 09-30-2005
sudoers file and Shutdown problem
Help please

I have today messed up my sudoers file which means no users can sudo in to our system.

I therefore need to do a restore of the file - no problems, I have a backup.

Now comes the problem.

The system is secure, and nobody seems to know the root password.

The system will not let me su - to log in as root

How do I run the Shutdown process, as I need to log in as root to run this?

Many thanks

Gary
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Old 09-30-2005
Don't tell me you don't have a serial consol on you UNIX box already logged in... if not, then you may have to pull the plug and restore your root password while booting in single mode user.

See this thread HERE
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