Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 15:13:46 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@logisticsoftware.co.nz> To: Josh Karlin <karlinjf@mercury.hendrix.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gaining my own entry Message-ID: <Pine.SC5.4.10.9909301509400.19204-100000@kiwi.logisticsoftware.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19990930203814.0090d540@mercury.hendrix.edu>
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On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Josh Karlin wrote:
> Alright.. I upgraded release 3.1 to release 3.3 When I rebooted I had to
> specify kernel.GENERIC to boot. Thats fine and dandy, when it came to my
> login prompt none of my old logins worked. So now, I'm locked out of my
> machine. How can I go about restoring my old passwd file?
(root isn't available?)
Boot into single user mode ("boot -s"); then "mount -a";
then hunt around for a copy on the system for your old
/etc/master.passwd. The upgrade process would have kept
a copy of it somewhere - a save directory which you'd have
specified.
Jonathan Chen
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