Hi there,  I have inherited an openBSD machine with no root account.  When I
boot up in single user mode   boot -s and do a   cat /etc/master.passwd | root
the only thing I get is:  daemon:*:1:1::0:0:The devil
himself:/root:/sbin/nologin I can't seem to make changes to the master.passwd
account by using vipw  in single usermode.   I get a message that the file is
locked or busy.  Can anyone help in what I can do next?  How can I add the
root account back to the master.passwd file.  thanks.

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