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I accidentally modified the line for root in /etc/passwd and changed its named. To fix it I tried using sudo to modify this file, but it does not let me sudo because sudo can't find the root user since I renamed it.

II am on ubuntu.

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Try :

sudo -u new_wrong_root_user

If you can't, reboot on a live-cd, then in terminal :

mkdir target
mount /dev/sda1 target # sda1 if / is the first partition of the first drive
vim target/etc/passwd
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