From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 13 9:36:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.alim.com (www.alim.com [4.19.130.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD32937B402 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:36:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from crashbox ([4.19.130.41]) by mail.alim.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59533U600L2S100V35) with SMTP id com for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 12:36:54 -0500 Message-ID: <00c101c1cab5$a65d7ac0$29821304@crashbox> From: "FreeBSD" To: "Free BSD Questions" References: Subject: Re: root Error Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 12:36:46 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ok I booted into single user mode and I am trying to edit the "paswwd" file, but what editor can I use, I tried vi and ee and they both don't work. I am also using the /bin/sh shell, incase that helps. I also tried to reinstall csh and the files aren't there. I would like to once again thank everyone for their help. Kevin Aug -Web Designer http://www.datalinkny.com http://www.datalinkwireless.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message