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From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To: Richard Gresek <rg@plusnet.de>
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Subject: Re: cannot login
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On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Richard Gresek wrote:

> Our /etc/pwd.db crashed somehow.
> 
> Now, nobody can login. Unfortunately even the root password does not 
> work.
> 
> How can I boot the system in single user mode to be able to login 
> without a password?

boot: -s

# mount -a  (mounts filesystems rw - before this / is mounted ro)
# cd /etc
# /usr/bin/head master.passwd

If it looks OK,

# /usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb -p master.passwd  (rebuilds the passwd dbs)

cheers,

Danny