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From: hickman@ttisys.tamu.edu (Dan R. Hickman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Help!! SOS! I can't login to my FreeBSD System!!
Date: 6 May 1994 19:20:14 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
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Dan R. Hickman (hickman@ttisys.tamu.edu) wrote:
: I have a serious problem!!!  For some reason I can no longer log into
: my FreeBSD 1.1-GAMMA system.  Not as root, not as myself.  No one can
: log in!  The only thing I can think of that might have caused it is
: that I downloaded and installed the secrdist because there was a 
: program I thought needed it.  That was last night and now.. no log in.
: Is there some way for me to boot the machine in single user mode or
: some way for me to get back in???

: HELP!!!!
: Dan

THis is Dan again.  I figured out how to boot in single user mode,
but it mounts the root file system as 'read-only'.  How can I 
get it to mount as 'read-write'?  I see in the init man page
that there are different levels of access.  It seems I need to 
be at level one but I don't know how to do that?  Any help?

Thanx,
Dan