Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 08:55:03 +1100 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au> To: Richard Gresek <rg@plusnet.de> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cannot login Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961114085146.369B-100000@panda.hilink.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199611132043.VAA09968@gds.de>
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On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Richard Gresek wrote: > Our /etc/pwd.db crashed somehow. > > Now, nobody can login. Unfortunately even the root password does not > work. > > How can I boot the system in single user mode to be able to login > without a password? boot: -s # mount -a (mounts filesystems rw - before this / is mounted ro) # cd /etc # /usr/bin/head master.passwd If it looks OK, # /usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb -p master.passwd (rebuilds the passwd dbs) cheers, Danny
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