Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 09:10:30 +0100 From: "Bond, Jeffery" <Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk> To: "'alan17@wizard.net'" <alan17@wizard.net>, ilia@cgilh.chel.su Cc: "'FreeBSD questions'" <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: FreeBSD Progress! Message-ID: <DD2AB7991BC6D211988E00A024AC583B83EC77@exchange.nectech.co.uk>
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Hi again Alan, Glad you got it booted! Does it remember the settings next time you boot? Anyway, to change the root password, just boot into single user mode. You can do this by giving a '-s' option at the diskXXX> prompt (I believe, but check the help). Then just use the passwd command to change it. You can't just edit /etc/passwd, although you might get away with editing /etc/master. passwd and then running 'pwd_mkdb' to update the database (or something like this). Using the 'passwd' command does it all for you. Hope it works! Jeff > -----Original Message----- > From: alan17@wizard.net [SMTP:alan17@wizard.net] > Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 1999 9:09 PM > To: ilia@cgilh.chel.su > Cc: Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk > Subject: FreeBSD Progress! > > According to Ilia Chipitsine: > > > > when it reboots with 'panic, cannot mount root', > > try to go to the "diskXXX>" prompt (during countdown press any key) > > and type 'set ....root_dir...=2' (i do not remember exactly, type > 'help'). > > > > that's it ! > Absolutely! You get the Brass Ring(or Gold Star, if preferred), > Ilia! > > Here is what happened. Since my last post, I have discovered the menu > that you get when you don't go straight into boot, but hit "any key" > as Ilia says(I think that is what Jeff Bond has been trying to > tell me :-( ) > > I entered the menu, and after experimenting with the help selection(which > is not bad BTW) I wound up by entering(as Ilia suggested) > set root_disk_unit=2 > Then, after verifying with a "show" command, I entered "boot" . . . and > this time the kernel did not panic and I was given a login prompt. > > Unfortunately, my problems are not yet over. For, although I copied my > password(that I had set during install) down on paper, I got "login > incorrect". > > I thought I knew how to fix that; simply boot linux, mount the bsd > partition and delete the 'x' in the password file of /etc/passwd. > But this didn't work. Can anyone help here? What is the passwd scheme > (shadow passwds? but where is /etc/shadow?) in FreeBSD? > > Many thanks to all who have written, and especially to Ilia! > > Alan(who still can't post to questions@freebsd.org, and hence must > rely on the kindness of Jeff or Ilia to forward this on .. ) > > -- > Alan McConnell If it can't be abused, it's not freedom. > Pixel Analysis Do not destroy what you cannot create.(L. Szilard) > alan17@wizard.net What a giftless bastard! (Tchaikovsky, about Brahms) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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