password failure- after mergmaster

[illoai at gmail.com]

On 09/07/07, Jean-Paul Natola <jnatola at familycareintl.org> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 01:29:44PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> > On Jul 9, 2007, at 1:25 PM, Peter Boosten wrote:
> > >
> > >Having read this I must admit that it's a complete mystery to me why
> > >mergemaster would touch your password file at all...
> >
> > Because sometimes new versions of the OS come with new built-in user
> > accounts, which need to be added to the existing passwd or groups
> > databases somehow?
>
> Yes, exactly. Have to *merge* the changes into /etc/master.passwd rather
> than brute force overwrite.
>
> Notice the difference from my first post in this thread, the file which
> was clobbered is /etc/master.passwd, not just /etc/passwd which is a
> dummy
>
>
> I'M DONE now- now I cant even boot into safe or single user mode
>
> It keeps asking me to enter full pathname of  shell or RETURN  for /bin/sh
>
> I hit enter and I see the same message again , and again , and again and
> again

Try typing /rescue/sh

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