On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 12:41:48PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > 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. >
Yes, ofcourse. I was just mentioning that "Simply editing /etc/passwd won't do the work".
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