From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 9 22:01:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA09612 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 22:01:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from virginia.edu (uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU [128.143.2.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA09603 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 22:01:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from archive.cs.virginia.edu by uvaarpa.virginia.edu id aa08938; 10 Jan 96 1:01 EST Received: from stretch.cs.Virginia.edu (atf3r@stretch-fo.cs.Virginia.EDU [128.143.136.14]) by archive.cs.Virginia.EDU (8.7.1/8.6.6) with SMTP id BAA00307; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 01:01:45 -0500 (EST) Received: by stretch.cs.Virginia.edu (4.1/SMI-2.0) id AA01493; Wed, 10 Jan 96 01:01:44 EST Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 01:01:44 -0500 (EST) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" Reply-To: adrian@virginia.edu 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: > Any clues on how I can get logged in to straighten the world out? I think you can fix this up by booting single user using '-s' at the boot prompt. You should not be prompted for a password. Then remount / to be weritable and use passwd or chpass to delete/update your password. cheers, Adrian adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| Support your local programmer, http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~atf3r/ --->>>| STOP Software Patent Abuses NOW! Member: The League for -->>| For an application and information Programming Freedom ->| see: http://www.lpf.org/