From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 9 7:37:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f105.law9.hotmail.com [64.4.9.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60A3F37B407 for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 07:37:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 07:37:43 -0700 Received: from 62.189.41.115 by lw9fd.law9.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sun, 09 Sep 2001 14:37:43 GMT X-Originating-IP: [62.189.41.115] From: "Nathan Vingoe" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Passwd file corupt Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2001 15:37:43 +0100 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Sep 2001 14:37:43.0308 (UTC) FILETIME=[FC1414C0:01C1393C] 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 Help While adding a new user to my server, It crashed.. we have got it all coming back up again, but it seems the passwd file in the /etc folder is now corrup. we can therfore only log into single user mode. how do we 1. get it so we can write to the disk, as it seems to be in read only mode. 2. regenerate the passwd file or what do we need to re generste? - we have got the master.passwd and it seems intact, although, I have never been in there before.. regards Nathan _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message