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 Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting System | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, Administrator | | Information and scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://www.ki.net | Communications, Inc
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