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From: john7doe@iesd.auc.dk (Simon Nybroe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Booting into Single User Mode
Date: 28 Jun 1996 15:17:20 +0200
Organization: CS at Aalborg University
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In-reply-to: tedm@agora.rdrop.com's message of 27 Jun 1996 05:36:48 GMT
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>>>>> "tedm" == tedm <tedm@agora.rdrop.com> writes:
tedm> In <DtM9Az.Equ@caprica.com>, ktaira@caprica.com (Kenneth
tedm> Taira) writes:
>> Having spent a few hours going through the FAQ and available
>> documentation, am here, hat-in-hand, asking for assistance.
>>
>> Embarassing but true, I changed the operator, and both root
>> passwords and have lost the yellow post-it note that I wrote
>> the passwords on. After a number of attempts to use Control-C
>> to force system into Single-usr mode, I can see the password
>> and shadow files, but I cannot get at /usr/bin, etc.
>> directories to run either an editor or passwd to get at it and
>> am woefully inept with sh.
>>
>> Help via e-mail?
tedm> Since you brought your system up single-user, /etc/rc and
tedm> friends wern't run, and none of the filesystem got mounted
tedm> thus you cannot see /usr.
tedm> You need to mount /usr by hand with /sbin/mount and
tedm> appropriate parameters. Checl /etc/fstab for them, their
tedm> going to vary depending if the disk is IDE or SCSI.
In this case, i'l use mount -a, I see no reason not to mount everything.
tedm> You cannot modify the passwd files by hand anyway, you have
tedm> to use vipw so the database gets rebuilt properly. (or
tedm> passwd)
VII
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