Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!narem-james
From: narem-james@yale.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: fsck deleted /etc/passwd on 3b2
Message-ID: <36445@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
Date: 25 Aug 88 20:16:27 GMT
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From: "James E. Narem Jr." <narem-james>

  Fsck deleted /etc/passwd on boot of my 3b2.  It now will not let
anyone login.  Is there anything else that can be done besides reload
unix?  I can get to the firmware monitor.  Optimally, I'd like some
sort of diskzap program that can run standalone, or some way of
trashing /etc/inittab so it will boot in single user.

        ..........jim (Narem@Yale.ARPA, decvax!yale!narem, Narem@YaleCS.BITNET)