Dear managers, thanks a lot for all your responses (too many to list all the email addresses). Almost all recommended to boot from a bootable CD and mount the disk as follows: > init 0 > boot cdrom -s > mount /dev/dsk/cxtxdxsx /a > vi /a/etc/passwd and remove the #. I of course knew this last resort approach and finally did exactly that which worked fine of course. I just hoped I could get away without rebooting the machine (pressing the power button to drive it down hard) but in our case no avail. We hadn't sudo configured, nor root roles nor a crontab script that could be modified by a normal user. Whatever, thanks a lot for all your suggestions and ideas. The machine is up and running again. Yes, I of course deserved it. :-) Take care whenever you hack your way through /etc/passwd. :-) Best wishes, Andreas _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Thu Dec 16 06:50:00 2010
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