Re: [ot] NetBSD

[Dominic Mitchell]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 01:20:19PM +0000, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> Resetting the root password is not too difficult, I think (I'm more
> used to FreeBSD, this will /probably/ work.  Once booted into single
> user mode, do:
> 
>     # mount -u /
>     # ed /etc/master.passwd
>     1s/:[^:]*/:/
>     p
>     w
>     q
>     # pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd

That should probably be (according to the vipw source):

    # pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd

>     # exit

-Dom