can't login as anyone - not even as root!

[Jerry McAllister]

> 
> Thanks, Sunil for the steps, but I have tried that already.
> 
> When I get to the # prompt in single user mode, I cannot use 
> the passwd command. I get the error;;
> 
> passwd: error opening database: /etc/pwd.db: Permission denied
> passwd: /etc/master.passwd: unchanged
> 

Sort of sounds like you didn't remount root.  
When you come up in single user, root is mounted without write permission.
You need to remount it.    mount -u /   will do it although
supposedly doing a mount -a will effectively include that step as well.
Still, we always do the extra step, maybe for old times.

////jerry

> and permissions are as follows;
> 
> # ls -tld /etc
> drwxr-xr-x  17  root  wheel  2560  Aug 28 09:16 /etc
> 
> # ls -tld /etc/pwd.db
> drw---r-- 1 root wheeel  40960 Aug 28 09:12 /etc/pwd.db
> 
> I -can- execute vipw and change passwords. It updates all the files
> master.passwd, spwd.db, passwd, and pwd.db without error.
> 
> 
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