On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, noud de brouwer wrote:

> >login: root
> >Login incorrect
> 
> /etc/passwd and friends is in etc12.tar.gz
> restalling that package might help..
> 
> but does destroy changes you made in /etc. if so and
> if you've got MacOS at hand, use a tar program for etc12.tar.gz
> and in the installers mini console cpin passwd, master.passwd,
> pwd.db and spwd.db

Or, if passwd and master.passwd aren't creamed, you can just vipw, make
some insignificant change to a user's full name or something, and :w
and :q out of the thing, and rebuild the databases.  Boot single user and
use mount -u / to mount the root partition read-write so that you won't
have to use the login -- that is, of course, unless you changed /etc/ttys
to mark the console as insecure....

Hope that helps,

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