Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 09:08:17 +0100 (MET) From: Thomas Graichen <graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de> To: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to run pwd_mkdb from fixit floppy? Message-ID: <199601100808.JAA00954@mordillo> In-Reply-To: <96Jan9.155353pst.177478@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> from "Bill Fenner" at Jan 9, 96 03:53:48 pm
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hasn't Bill Fenner said ? ...
>
> 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.
>
> Any clues on how I can get logged in to straighten the world out?
>
boot into single user (the -s option a the boot prompt) - then
/sbin/fsck -p /sbin/mount -avtufs - the you should have enough stuff
to make all work
t
p.s.: this won't work if you set a password to the single user mode
by setting secure to insecure in /etc/ttys :-)
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