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From: Tim Erlin <tperlin@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Installing
To: Doug Young <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au>,
	Brian Lau <blau@allbusiness.com>,
	Matthew Murphy <fluidlord@hotmail.com>
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Ok, so for confirmations sake, I did 'whereis passwd'
and got '/usr/bin/passwd'

I then booted into single user and ran
'/usr/bin/passwd' and got '/usr/bin/passwd: not found'

It also appears that /usr is empty. Odd, no?

--Tim

--- Doug Young <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> wrote:
> 
> > alright, so I just tried this method (4.3-RELEASE)
> and
> > it doesn't seem to work for me.
> > 
> > I get:
> > 
> > #passwd
> > passwd: not found
> > #
> 
> I'm certain that Brian is correct because I've done
> that many 
> times ... maybe you need to give the full path to
> "password"
> or something (like "/usr/bin/passwd" or wherever it
> is)
> 
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