Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 02:05:54 +0200 (MET DST) From: Piero Serini <piero@strider.ibenet.it> To: LPPelletier@cmq.qc.ca (Luc Pelletier) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Passwd file? Message-ID: <199509120005.CAA29764@strider.ibenet.it> In-Reply-To: <2232323.ensmtp@cmq.qc.ca> from "Luc Pelletier" at Sep 11, 95 03:50:08 pm
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Hello. Quoting from Luc Pelletier (Mon Sep 11 21:50:08 1995): > Suppose I've lost my root password. I managed to create a boot diskette on > which I put a copy of the files passwd and master.passwd. Those files contains ... > I rebooted from the hard disk and to my great surprise, I had to give my old > password for the root in order to log in. ... You need to copy /etc/pwd.db and /etc/spwd.db. They are the real files which are looked into by login. Bye, -- # $Id: .signature,v 1.12 1995/08/14 12:10:54 piero Exp $ Piero Serini Via Giambologna, 1 <Piero@Free.IT> I 20136 Milano - ITALY
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