--- Jumping Mouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
There is FAQ 8.1 on that. // juan Get a sneak peak at messages with a handy reading pane with All new Yahoo! Mail: http://mail.yahoo.ca