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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.uoregon.edu!news.texoma.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: [sing boot] help Date: 30 Oct 1996 08:56:01 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 25 Message-ID: <557571$9li@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <554trf$2lu@usenet.kornet.nm.kr> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E comlab@taeback.kornet.nm.kr (DongHo Lee (kornet)) wrote: > in first, I reboot with single mode ( on booting, I put "-s" option) > but I can olny mount root with read-only. I can't modified or > copy the other files related to passwd. I tried to copy spwd.db of > other freeBSD machine to my system . I failed. Single-user is the right step. When it comes up, type: fsck -p mount -a -t ufs In the hope that your /etc/master.passwd file is still intact, you can then: pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd Otherwise, get a backup copy. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)