From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 24 2:15:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0584337B400 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 02:15:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.interoute.net (mail.interoute.net [212.23.33.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5819F43E3B for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 02:15:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from george@interoute.net) Received: from w112753 (moody-pix.interoute.com [212.23.35.250]) by mail.interoute.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 0CFCC21887 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 09:47:58 +0100 (BST) From: "george" To: Subject: Password problem Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 09:50:20 +0100 Message-ID: <000801c232ef$24aec040$d07d10ac@w112753> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi i've got a box and i was able to do a boot -s to recover the root passwd. When i got to the prompt # i've : -mount -u / -mount -a and then when i type passwd nothing happens. i've notice that /etc/passwd has a simbolic link to /var/etc/passwd and also /usr/bin/passwd have a simbolic link to /var/etc/passwd. I've copy accross a bin passwd file from another unix and put it on the /var/etc/ , however it still doesn't work. Any ideas how can i work around this. regards To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message