[Sunhelp] hosed up root login... HELP!

[Morgan.G]

Hi,

There shouldn't be a problem to boot the system via ok boot cdrom -s and
change the /etc/passwd fields. Make sure once booted in single user mode, 
mount the root partition on /a . Probably someone is trying to work on the
cdrom image.

Then work on /a/etc/passwd.  You may have to set a the environment to perform
vi, ie, 
# TERM=vt100;export TERM
# EDITOR=vi;export EDITOR

This should work.

Cheers,


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