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Subject: Re: root unkown?
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On Sun, 4 Aug 2002, Desmond Lee wrote:
> Hi there - I can't log into my machine because i hosed the /etc/group and the /etc/master.passwd files while doing an upgrade.
> Anywho, i'm looking at the freebsd faq , 10.14. I have forgotten the root password! What do I do?, to try and change the root password. But when i do 'passwd root' i get a message like 'passwd: Unkown user root".
> Can someone please help me :(
> Thanks
> Desmond

Can't you just boot up to kern.flp and mfsroot.flp floppies and start a
Fixit or Holographic shell, then mount whichever HD partition to fix this?

Makes you kind of wish that mount was passwordable -- and that the entire
filesystem were encrypted in real-time!

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