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Date:      Wed, 10 Jan 1996 00:04:00 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net>
To:        Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to run pwd_mkdb from fixit floppy?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960110000255.3411E-100000@ki.net>
In-Reply-To: <96Jan9.155353pst.177478@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>

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On Tue, 9 Jan 1996, Bill Fenner wrote:

> I installed the 2.1 upgrade and can't log in, so am guessing that it's
> I was using DES passwords and the 2.1 upgrade installed the MD5 system.
> I figured I'd just boot the fixit floppy, remove root's password and
> reboot, but it turns out to be a little harder than that -- pwd_mkdb is
> linked shared and there is no ld.so available in fixit-land.
>
	Just did this the other day when I wiped out the root entry 
altogether :(

	Mount the root drive to /mnt (fixit gets mounted to /mnt2)
	chroot to /mnt
	mount your /usr and /var drives
	use vipw

	
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