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From: Tim Erlin <tperlin@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Installing
To: Peter <fbsdq@yahoo.com>,
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Thanks. I was headed down that path just now and found
that I needed to 'mount /usr' and 'mount -w /' to get
the change to write properly. 

--Tim

--- Peter <fbsdq@yahoo.com> wrote:
> type 'mount /usr'
> or better yet type 'vipw' [i think that is on /bin]
> and just delete the encrypted password, then exit
> and reboot into normal mode
> type root and it won't assk for password.
> 
> On 05/16/2001 4:51:30 PM, Tim Erlin is quoted as
> saying:
>  
> 
> . . . .|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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