From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 9 21:05:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA06623 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 21:05:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from ki.net (root@ns.ki.net [142.77.249.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA06615 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 21:05:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (from scrappy@localhost) by ki.net (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA03527; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 00:04:04 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 00:04:00 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Bill Fenner cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to run pwd_mkdb from fixit floppy? In-Reply-To: <96Jan9.155353pst.177478@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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