passwd file corrupted

[Mohan Vanmane]

I have a Convergent Tech miniframe running unix system V.
Last thing I did on the system was change the root password (while
I was logged in as root).

Since then no one can login.  System seems to be running fine.  I reset the
system and it boots up fine. File system is OK and the system comes up
in multiuser mode.

How can I bring this machine down to administrative mode so that I can
change the password file?

I appreciate any help to solve this problem.

Thank you.


vanmane%sumax.uucp at beaver.cs.washington.edu