From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jun 5 7: 9:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from tankgrrl.bridget.mindriot.net (D5801.DIALUP.CORNELL.EDU [128.253.49.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28B5714D19 for ; Sat, 5 Jun 1999 07:09:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc26@cornell.edu) Received: from localhost (cjc26@localhost) by tankgrrl.bridget.mindriot.net (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id KAA07016; Sat, 5 Jun 1999 10:08:50 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc26@cornell.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: tankgrrl.bridget.mindriot.net: cjc26 owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 14:08:50 +0000 (GMT) From: a disembodied voice emerging from the chaos of reality X-Sender: cjc26@tankgrrl To: Shashi Joshi Cc: Stephen Montgomery-Smith , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.7 -> 3.2 STABLE upgrade changes root password??? In-Reply-To: <19990605094819.A29269@WEBSI.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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