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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!caen!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!news.doit.wisc.edu!fozzie!porter 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 Organization: Division of Information Technology Lines: 14 Message-ID: <39ei1q$82k@news.doit.wisc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: fozzie.chem.wisc.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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 -- [-Ron Porter-----------] [-Univ. Of Wisconsin---] [-Chemistry Dept.------] [-Madison, Wi 53706----] [-608-262-0190---------] [-porter@chem.wisc.edu-]