Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 14:08:50 +0000 (GMT) From: a disembodied voice emerging from the chaos of reality <cjc26@cornell.edu> To: Shashi Joshi <shashi@websi.com> Cc: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.7 -> 3.2 STABLE upgrade changes root password??? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906051407460.6920-100000@tankgrrl> In-Reply-To: <19990605094819.A29269@WEBSI.com>
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On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Shashi Joshi wrote: > > Can't you boot into single user mode and correct the passwords that way? > > When you get that message "booting in ... seconds" press a key, then type > > boot -s. > > I tried that but it has the root partition in read only mode :-(( Remount it as r/w by doing a 'mount -a' or 'mount -o rw,remount /' Cliff Crawford http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/cjc26/ -><- i l i k e o a t m e a l )O( To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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