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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/
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