How to manually recover if root was deleted from /etc/shadow and/or /etc/passwd

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • The 'root' entry was removed from /etc/shadow and /etc/passwd

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ( All Versions)

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