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Date:      Wed, 23 Aug 1995 03:00:31 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Piero Serini <piero@strider.ibenet.it>
To:        erich@lodgenet.com (Eric L. Hernes)
Cc:        LPPelletier@cmq.qc.ca, questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Root passwd again!
Message-ID:  <199508230100.DAA07860@strider.ibenet.it>
In-Reply-To: <199508222240.RAA28636@jake.lodgenet.com> from "Eric L. Hernes" at Aug 22, 95 05:40:16 pm

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Hello.

Quoting from Eric L. Hernes (Wed Aug 23 00:40:16 1995):
> This means that you made your console insecure.
> As far as I know, your only option now is a reinstall. :(

No! Boot from diskette, jump into the shell, mount /dev/<root device>
on /mnt, mount /dev/<usr device> on /mnt/usr, chroot /mnt /bin/sh,
check the PATH and run vipw.

Bye,
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Piero Serini                                            Via Giambologna, 1 
<Piero@Free.IT>                                     I 20136 Milano - ITALY



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