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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!ieunet!news.ieunet.ie!jkh From: jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] /etc/master.passwd corrupts itself. HELP! Date: 07 Jul 1994 21:13:04 GMT Organization: Jordan Hubbard Lines: 29 Message-ID: <JKH.94Jul7211304@whisker.hubbard.ie> References: <2vhiq0$g6v@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: whisker.hubbard.ie In-reply-to: tmonroe@soda.berkeley.edu's message of 7 Jul 1994 18:50:40 GMT In article <2vhiq0$g6v@agate.berkeley.edu> tmonroe@soda.berkeley.edu (Anthony Monroe) writes: myself and as root, and neither of the passwords worked! I know they're the correct ones, unless I changed them in my sleep, someone else changed them for me, or the password files simply corrupted itself for some reason. That sounds very unlikely. More likely, you changed something but *didn't log out* and hence didn't actually discover the problem until after you'd exited everything and then came back to login again in the morning. In any case... that going into single-user mode would do something, but I need the root partition mounted as readable and writable, not read-only as it insists to do. This is the only way I can think of (other than pray for a miracle) to solve this problem. Read the man page for mount. The solution is: mount -u /dev/<rootpart> / To reset the R/W bit setting for the rootfs. Then go fix your password file and reboot. Jordan -- Jordan K. Hubbard FreeBSD core team Clams are your friends