Cannot login to a RHEL6 system using root or any user
Issue
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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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