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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Can't login as root What to do?
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 17:57:19 -0700
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To: Tushar Patel <tushar@ecpi.com>

Tushar Patel wrote:
> Please help?  [I screwed up my password file]

The -s flag to boot: is your friend.  Boot into single-user mode with
it, and when you're at the # prompt do:

# mount -u /
# mount -t ufs -a
# vipw
[fix your password file, write it out]
# reboot

-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project