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From: porter@fozzie.chem.wisc.edu (Ron Porter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: help me get into my machine
Date: 5 Nov 1994 00:02:02 GMT
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Help, i changed the password file on my freebsd1.1.5 machine and now i
can't log in even as root. I've read the FAQ on this and it says to boot
in single user mode then mount the filesystem. This works fine, but once
i'm in i can't change the passwd file because vipw and vi arn't
available in this mode(why?). Anyway i need to know how i can work
around this.
Thanks
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