Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 19:56:01 +0200 From: Danny Pansters <danny@ricin.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lost root passwd Message-ID: <200504161956.01579.danny@ricin.com> In-Reply-To: <200504161035.55854.krinklyfig@spymac.com> References: <6.2.0.14.0.20050225125247.02e6d948@mail.face2interface.com> <6.2.0.14.0.20050416124420.03a0bed0@mail.face2interface.com> <200504161035.55854.krinklyfig@spymac.com>
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On Saturday 16 April 2005 19:35, Joshua Tinnin wrote: > On Sat 16 Apr 05 09:57, Marty Landman <MLandman@face2interface.com> <snip> > > 3. rebooting into single user mode from the HD, after entering > > > > # mount -t ufs -a > > Did you do > > # mount -u / > > ? > This is the problem, in SU mode the / partition gets mounted read-only, so you need to remount it RW with the -u switch as stated above. mount -a will not re-mount an already mounted filesystem only those in fstab that are not mounted yet. [ btw, pam_chauthtok() is a function called by the pam_unix module AFAICT ] HTH, Dan
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