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Date:      Mon, 9 Aug 2004 10:32:43 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
To:        membama@bellsouth.net (Russell Holloway)
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Accound has expired after making changes in user manager (KDE)...
Message-ID:  <200408091432.i79EWiF24183@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <000801c47db3$320b0ee0$e201a8c0@HC.Gods.com> from "Russell Holloway" at Aug 08, 2004 08:50:02 PM

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> I'm completely locked out of the system. I can't even login as root. 
> Can someone tell me how I can get back into my system?

Try booting to single user.    Hit the space bar during the countdown
and then do    boot -s   and take the default shell  (just hit enter)
when it asks.   Then do fsck -p  and mount -a  and swapon -a  when
you get the # prompt.   Then you can fish around and fix things up.

////jerry
> 
> Thanks
> Membama@bellsouth.net
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