On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 09:55:16AM -0400, John Von Essen wrote: > Boot with 1st CD, goto the Fixit Shell (will need 2nd CD). From there you > have to manually mount the / filesystem and edit passwd (just clear out > the passwd, root::). However, do an fsck on the device first (you may have > to reboot afterwards) since if you have any fragmentation following an > unclean shutdown, you will not be able to mount the device. >
Simply editing /etc/passwd won't do the work (this is not Linux, eah) /etc/master.passwd must be edited and then pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd must be run.
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