can't login as anyone - not even as root!

[Sunil Sunder Raj]

Hi,
If the problem still exists try

get master.passwd from /var/backups
run the command
# pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd

Regards
SSR

>From: Dave Banning <sky_tracker at yahoo.com>
>To: Sunil Sunder Raj <unixtools at hotmail.com>
>CC: questions at freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: can't login as anyone - not even as root!
>Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 21:40:20 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Thanks, Sunil for the steps, but I have tried that already.
>
>When I get to the # prompt in single user mode, I cannot use
>the passwd command. I get the error;;
>
>passwd: error opening database: /etc/pwd.db: Permission denied
>passwd: /etc/master.passwd: unchanged
>
>and permissions are as follows;
>
># ls -tld /etc
>drwxr-xr-x  17  root  wheel  2560  Aug 28 09:16 /etc
>
># ls -tld /etc/pwd.db
>drw---r-- 1 root wheeel  40960 Aug 28 09:12 /etc/pwd.db
>
>I -can- execute vipw and change passwords. It updates all the files
>master.passwd, spwd.db, passwd, and pwd.db without error.
>
>
>
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