Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 17:00:14 -0600 From: Peter <fbsdq@yahoo.com> To: tperlin@yahoo.com, "freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>, "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Installing Message-ID: <SAK.2001.05.16.spbklere@support10>
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type 'mount /usr' or better yet type 'vipw' [i think that is on /bin] and just delete the encrypted password, then exit and reboot into normal mode type root and it won't assk for password. On 05/16/2001 4:51:30 PM, Tim Erlin is quoted as saying: . . . .|Ok, so for confirmations sake, I did 'whereis passwd' . . . .|and got '/usr/bin/passwd' . . . .| . . . .|I then booted into single user and ran . . . .|'/usr/bin/passwd' and got '/usr/bin/passwd: not found' . . . .| . . . .|It also appears that /usr is empty. Odd, no? . . . .| . . . .|--Tim . . . .| . . . .|--- Doug Young <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> wrote: . . . .|> . . . .|> > alright, so I just tried this method (4.3-RELEASE) . . . .|> and . . . .|> > it doesn't seem to work for me. . . . .|> > . . . .|> > I get: . . . .|> > . . . .|> > #passwd . . . .|> > passwd: not found . . . .|> > # . . . .|> . . . .|> I'm certain that Brian is correct because I've done . . . .|> that many . . . .|> times ... maybe you need to give the full path to . . . .|> "password" . . . .|> or something (like "/usr/bin/passwd" or wherever it . . . .|> is) . . . .|> . . . .|> . . . .|> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org . . . .|> with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of . . . .|> the message . . . .| . . . .| . . . .|__________________________________________________ . . . .|Do You Yahoo!? . . . .|Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices . . . .|http://auctions.yahoo.com/ . . . .| . . . .|To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org . . . .|with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message www.nul.cjb.net www.FreeBSD.org _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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