Eric,

You can boot the system off of the livecd, mount your root disk and edit 
the /etc/passwd file.  You might also want to run fsck on the disk to 
see if your file system has become corrupted somehow.

Cheers,
Robert.

Eric Basham wrote:
> Greetings, our Vyatta in our lab is running 2.0.  It had been acting 
> strangely of late (snmp not working at all) and then I became unable to 
> login to it via telnet/ssh/http - would never get a prompt for 
> ssh/telnet, and http would never let me login.  Went to the console and 
> could not load up xorpsh.  I rebooted it, and it came back online - I 
> was able to telnet to it and get a prompt, but neither the root or user 
> accounts are letting me in.  I see this error on the console:
>  
> Parse error in /etc/busybox.conf line2: user
>  
> Any ideas on the problem?  How can I recover the passwords?   Thanks.
> 
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