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Date:      Thu, 30 Sep 1999 11:50:58 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Josh Karlin <karlinjf@mercury.hendrix.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: gaining my own entry
Message-ID:  <19990930115057.C488@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19990930203814.0090d540@mercury.hendrix.edu>; from Josh Karlin on Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 08:38:14PM -0500
References:  <3.0.32.19990930203814.0090d540@mercury.hendrix.edu>

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On Thursday, 30 September 1999 at 20:38:14 -0500, Josh Karlin wrote:
> Alright.. I upgraded release 3.1 to release 3.3  When I rebooted I had to
> specify kernel.GENERIC to boot.  Thats fine and dandy, when it came to my
> login prompt none of my old logins worked.  So now, I'm locked out of my
> machine.  How can I go about restoring my old passwd file?

That depends on what you did with it.  You haven't exactly given a lot
of details.  Normally you don't need to boot from kernel.GENERIC.

Greg
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