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[Christopher Biggs]

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Robert Brockway <robert at timetraveller.org> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

> The init=/bin/sh trick worked for me the other day when someone nuked
> /etc/shadow on a system here. I suspect it will work if /etc/passwd has
> been nuked 

Yup, it sure will.

I've built embedded Linux systems that don't *have* a password file.
In the smallest case, the _only_ file in /etc is inittab; and since I
was using the "busybox" init (which has a compiled-in fallback
inittab) , the system would still boot even without /etc/inittab.

--cjb



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