Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 21:13:00 -0500 From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: passwd, root, single user problem! Message-ID: <86lkua$7dn$1@twwells.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001251239250.2141-100000@kino>
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In article <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001251239250.2141-100000@kino>, Victor Y. Dominguez <yoalli@kino.tij.uia.mx> wrote: : I just install Fbsd 3.4 on my pc. I change the root passwd after : installation, but when was time to login it didn't let me. So then I boot : as a single user and tried to change my passwd. But then I realized that I : couldn't open any file. I get errors like this: : : #vipw : vipw: /etc/pw.KaK119: Read-only file system Because you don't have your filesystems mounted. Prior to that, the root file system is mounted read-only, which is why the above message. Enter the following commands: /sbin/fsck -p /sbin/mount -a and then you can run vipw. (Leaving off the /sbin will work if the PATH variable is set up correctly.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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