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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!agate!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!taeback!comlab From: comlab@taeback.kornet.nm.kr (DongHo Lee (kornet)) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: [sing boot] help Date: 29 Oct 1996 12:38:07 GMT Organization: KORNET Lines: 26 Message-ID: <554trf$2lu@usenet.kornet.nm.kr> NNTP-Posting-Host: taeback.kornet.nm.kr X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I can't login FreeBSD with anything account including root. actually, I used empty root passwd. of course you may say that is very dangours and Don't use that... but, that is not important to me. some days ago, my system was crashed and so, filesystems are damaged. so I can't login machine. I think passwd was broken. when I try to login, the following message is displyed on scree. --- /etc/spwd.db: invalid type or format --- What is the best way to solve this problem? in first, I reboot with single mode ( on booting, I put "-s" option) but I can olny mount root with read-only. I can't modified or copy the other files related to passwd. I tried to copy spwd.db of other freeBSD machine to my system . I failed. I'm waitting your useful answering. thanks in advance. e-mail: siyoon@cs.kwangwoon.ac.kr