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From: Toshihiro Kanda <candy@fct.kgc.co.jp>
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Subject: Re: Please Help ... I am locked out of a FreeBSD machine
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> In /temp as root,  I typed the following ...
> 
> chown -R test .*

  Just a little advice.  Mtree(8) will help you recover *only*
directory hierarchy.
  Boot your system as single user mode (boot: -s). Then mount all
filesystems.  Then see mtree(8).  Run

  # mtree -u -p / -f /etc/mtree/BSD.root.dist

and so on...

candy@fct.kgc.co.jp (Toshihiro Kanda)