From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 12 19:39:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA22204 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 Nov 1996 19:39:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from calvino.alaska.net (root@calvino.alaska.net [206.149.65.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA22199 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 1996 19:39:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from hmmm.alaska.net (hmmm.alaska.net [206.149.69.94]) by calvino.alaska.net (8.8.0/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA20957 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 1996 18:38:49 -0900 (AKST) Message-ID: <3289B309.433A@alaska.net> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 03:37:45 -0800 From: hmmm X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: /etc lock out Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk i guess i did something REAL stupid! i changed the following files in /etc: group master.passwd pwd.db spwd.db i think that was all of them. i did a GREP in /etc on roots real name (and added my last name to all occurences) and did the same to my login/user name. now i'm locked out of my BSD partitions (