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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!foxhound.dsto.gov.au!fang.dsto.gov.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!news.tamu.edu!ttisys.tamu.edu!hickman From: hickman@ttisys.tamu.edu (Dan R. Hickman) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Help!! SOS! I can't login to my FreeBSD System!! Date: 6 May 1994 22:05:01 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Lines: 26 Message-ID: <2qeeud$mpm@news.tamu.edu> References: <2qdv2b$65k@news.tamu.edu> <2qe59e$csv@news.tamu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ttisys.tamu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Dan R. Hickman (hickman@ttisys.tamu.edu) wrote: : Dan R. Hickman (hickman@ttisys.tamu.edu) wrote: : : I have a serious problem!!! For some reason I can no longer log into : : my FreeBSD 1.1-GAMMA system. Not as root, not as myself. No one can : : log in! The only thing I can think of that might have caused it is : : that I downloaded and installed the secrdist because there was a : : program I thought needed it. That was last night and now.. no log in. : : Is there some way for me to boot the machine in single user mode or : : some way for me to get back in??? : : HELP!!!! : : Dan : THis is Dan again. I figured out how to boot in single user mode, : but it mounts the root file system as 'read-only'. How can I : get it to mount as 'read-write'? I see in the init man page : that there are different levels of access. It seems I need to : be at level one but I don't know how to do that? Any help? : Thanx, THANKS so much to everyone who answered my SOS. I have gotten it back going again, finally. What a scare! Any idea why the passwd file got messed up? THANX again!!! Dan