Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 15:43:40 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua> To: "J. W. Ballantine" <jwb@homer.att.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: passwd file repair Message-ID: <20000217154340.A31400@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> In-Reply-To: <200002171310.IAA20440@akiva.homer.att.com>; from J. W. Ballantine on Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 08:10:17AM -0500 References: <200002171310.IAA20440@akiva.homer.att.com>
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On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 08:10:17AM -0500, J. W. Ballantine wrote: > > Since the questions search/browse is down on freebsd.org, I'm asking for > some help in repairing the passwd file that I managed to mess up. > > I boot in single user mode, enter: > mount -u / > mount -t -a ufs > swapon -a > > and then enter vipw, to which I get ex/vi not found. > > What else/does one need to do to run vipw in single user mode, > or what needs to be done to rebuild the shadow passwd file if I > edit passwd with ex??? > 1. Check that your /usr filesystem is mounted, and you have /usr/bin/vi. 2. Make sure /usr/bin is in your PATH environment variable. -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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