From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed May 16 15:56:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from smtp011.mail.yahoo.com (smtp011.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E42BE37B423 for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 15:56:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fbsdq@yahoo.com) Received: from h2.impactidealsolutions.com (HELO support10) (216.98.200.91) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 16 May 2001 22:56:41 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Message-Id: Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 17:00:14 -0600 X-Priority: 3 From: Peter X-Mailer: Mail Warrior To: tperlin@yahoo.com, "freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG" , "questions@freebsd.org" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Installing Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Mailer-Version: v3.57 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 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) . . . .|> . . . .|> . . . .|> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org . . . .|> with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of . . . .|> the message . . . .| . . . .| . . . .|__________________________________________________ . . . .|Do You Yahoo!? . . . .|Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices . . . .|http://auctions.yahoo.com/ . . . .| . . . .|To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org . . . .|with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message www.nul.cjb.net www.FreeBSD.org _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message