title: Manually Creating a Root Token in Vault (the hard way)
body: <p>Ok so I have an application that I inherited that we do not know the root token and we do not have any recovery keys or unseal keys. The problem is, we cannot authenticate into Vault at all and we also cannot have the instance go down.</p>
  <p>I do have access to the datastore it uses (DynamoDB) and the encrypting keys. My assumption is that it would be possible in theory to manually add an entry and set a password directly on the underlying datastore instance so that we can have a root account again.</p>
  <p>I know this one is weird but we cannot re-initialize the database.</p>
  <p>Any thoughts on how this could be done?</p>