Cannot login to a RHEL6 system using root or any user

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • RHEL 6.4 cannot login to the system using root or any user

    Previous activity was /etc/password and /etc/shadow were accidentally renamed
    Tried to login directly to the console, it failed.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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