Account disabled and cannot get it enabled again

I am running OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 and now have three accounts that all show "isDisabled=true" when running "sudo pwpolicy -u USERNAME --get-effective-policy". All three accounts have full admin rights. I was logged in via SSH using one of those accounts just prior to it getting disabled, so I was using it to try to re-enable the other accounts. I was using the command "sudo pwpolicy -u USERNAME -enableuser" as well as "sudo pwpolicy -a AUTHENTICATOR_ACCOUNT -u USERNAME -enableuser", but neither command worked. Now that all three accounts are showing "isDisabled=true" I cannot use sudo to make changes. Even worse, one of the three accounts that is locked is "root". We had set password policies using pwpolicy. The output of the different policy levels show:
pwpolicy -getglobalpolicy
requiresSymbol=1 minutesUntilFailedLoginReset=60 maxFailedLoginAttempts=5 minChars=15 usingHistory=10 requiresNumeric=1 passwordCannotBeName=1 maxMinutesUntilChangePassword=129600 requiresMixedCase=1 requiresAlpha=1
pwpolicy -u USERNAME -getpolicy [NOTE: This output is for one of the non-root accounts]
requiresAlpha=1 passwordCannotBeName=1 minutesUntilFailedLoginReset=0 maxFailedLoginAttempts=10000 minChars=0 usingHistory=0 requiresNumeric=0 requiresMixedCase=0 maxMinutesUntilChangePassword=2147483520 canModifyPasswordforSelf=1 requiresSymbol=0
pwpolicy -u USERNAME --get-effective-policy [NOTE: This output is for one of the non-root accounts]
isDisabled=true newPasswordRequired=false
Short of rebooting and getting into rescue mode to reset the passwords for the accounts is there a way to re-enable the accounts and be able to access them?

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