Thanks for all the help.  My friend solved the problem like this:

<space> while boot loader counts down
boot -s
fsck -y /
mount -u /
fsck -y /usr
mount /usr
vi /etc/passwd <-- delete password
passwd
...
...


Again, thanks!

-Mike



On Tue, 23 May 2000, Richard Rauch wrote:

> 
>  [...]
> >>vi (if you need it).
> >
> >based on
> >
> >   % where ed ex vi view pico xedit joe emacs
> >   /bin/ed
> >   /usr/bin/ex
> >   /usr/bin/vi
> >   /usr/bin/view
>  [...]
> 
> Bah.  That's why we have /bin/ed, the one true editor.  (^&
> 
> (Okay, I use GNU EMACS nearly all of the time, and nearly all of the rest
> of the time.  But ed should be in everyone's survival kit, IMHO...)