On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 09:44:35AM +0300, Vasil Dimov wrote: > 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.
Much easier to just chroot(8) into the mounted filesystem and use the 'passwd root' command, as others have already suggested - after booting from the fixit CD, of course. [Cc list snipped, eek] G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 The rest of this sentence is written in Thailand, on
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