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Date:      Sun, 7 Dec 2008 12:07:11 +0200
From:      "Valentin Bud" <valentin.bud@gmail.com>
To:        "Redd Vinylene" <reddvinylene@gmail.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Locked myself out.. AGAIN!!
Message-ID:  <139b44430812070207u5dd5e49cr1ee3884cd5af046c@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <f1019d520812070204u752a410bw5812dcc3fac04160@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <f1019d520812070204u752a410bw5812dcc3fac04160@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Redd Vinylene <reddvinylene@gmail.com>wrote:

> On this dedicated box here I made the mistake of adding a comment to
> root's entry in my password file:
>
> root:*:0:0::/root:/bin/sh # What I thought would be a harmless comment.
>
> Now I can't su to root. And my ISP is closed on Sundays. Is there any
> way I can fix this on my own?


Do you have sudo ? If yes (re)edit the file and change it back how it was.
If not others might come with some opinions :|.

a great day.
v


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