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Subject: Re: lost root passwd
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At 06:45 PM 4/16/2005, Benjamin Rossen wrote:

>I think the problem you are having comes because you must boot your 
>machine in
>single-user mode to make this work.
>
>Then:
># mount -u /
># mount /usr
># passed root

Hi Benjamin. Joshua's earlier advice to do

># fsck -p
># mount -u /
># mount -a -t ufs

prior to

# passwd root

did the trick for me. Thanks, sure wish I understood what most of this 
stuff does, but on the bright side a while back I wished I could make a 
useful machine out of FBSD, Apache, Perl etc.., so there is progress.

Thanks,

Marty


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