Can't login as root on solaris

hi, i can't seem to login as root anymore on solaris.i was trying to work with Korn shell but my default shell is Bourne. here is what i did. 1) Logged in as root, i created a user. 2) With the user i tried changing the shell of the user to Korn in the /etc/passwd file with $ vi /etc/passwd but it was a read-only file owned by root. 3) I switched user to root and changed the permission of /etc/passwd to 777 # chmod 777 /etc/password 4) i switched back to the user and was able to edit the /etc/passwd of the shell used by the user. SHELL=/sbin/sh To SHELL=/bin/ksh The next day i tried logging in as the user and root and i was unable. i then logged in in safe mode and noticed the permission on /etc/passwd is lrwxrwxrwx and not -rwxrwxrwx. HELP! Please note that i didn't install solaris on my system, i'm using VMware.

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