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From: slawaetz@diku.dk (Sten Law{tz)
Subject: Q: Help, I have disabled my console login possibilities.
Message-ID: <1993Nov27.160339.20961@odin.diku.dk>
Sender: slawaetz@embla.diku.dk
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1993 16:03:39 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen
Keywords: NetBSD
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I seem to have shut myself out from my NetBSD 0.9 system.
I added the vga entry as the main tty in /etc/ttys file on my
NetBSD partition. Unfortunately, this is not reckognized by NetBSD,
so I have no means to log onto my system and change it back. I have
tried booting BSD from floppy, but this will not allow me to run an
editor to change the file, so I'm stuck with a *very safe* system
(no-one, not even me, can log on...). Is there a not to hard way
to change this? Ie., I could *in principle* just reinstall NetBSD,
this would take some time, though...
Any suggestions?
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Sten Lawaetz
slawaetz@diku.dk
...No, I do not have one of these clever little footers all you guys
put in the bottom of your emails, which sometimes leads me to think you
spend more time designing clever little footers than you do writing
your mail ( 8-> ). Of course, there are some nice ones out there, mind
you...