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#! rnews 1346 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!bofh.dot!vyzynz!bofh.dot!news.dacom.co.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!bofh.dot!usenet From: Minsung Kim <stair@chiak.kaist.ac.kr> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: HELP: lost root passwd Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 00:20:32 +0900 Organization: Korea Advanced Inst. of Sci & Tech Lines: 22 Message-ID: <31A5D3C0.41C67EA6@chiak.kaist.ac.kr> References: <slegter.832754504@ruunat.fys.ruu.nl> <Drsz7s.MJq@ritz.mordor.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: stair-s.kaist.ac.kr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) Chris Mauritz wrote: > > Boot in single user mode (type -s at the "boot:" prompt). > Type "passwd your.password.goes.here" > shutdown -r now > Just a moment. Before doing that the root filesystem must be mounted as read-write rather than read-only (the default in single-user mode), otherwise you won't be able to modify your /etc/passwd file. Remount is done by: # fsck -p # mount -u -o rw / Then run passwd as usual. -- Stair =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Kim, Minsung <stair@chiak.kaist.ac.kr> CS Dept., KAIST