Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:07:58 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: "Tamouh H." <hakmi@rogers.com> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pwd.db too big for / partition Message-ID: <7822B290-4756-47B7-9951-E8F11A294C3C@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <200703192049.l2JKnBTl010869@mac.com> References: <200703192049.l2JKnBTl010869@mac.com>
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On Mar 19, 2007, at 1:49 PM, Tamouh H. wrote: > Well, I had a VM laying around so thought to fire it up and do some > testing. I know this is absurd abit but I wanted to see the effect > of doing symlinks with pwd.db files. > > - I was able to copy /etc/pwd.db /etc/spwd.db to /var/etc/ > - Then I deleted /etc/pwd.db and /etc/spwd.db > - created ln -s /var/etc/pwd.db /etc/pwd.db and ln -s /var/etc/ > spwd.db /etc/spwd.db > - changed the root password, worked! > - Even rebooted the system and was able to successfully able to login I invite you to repeat the experiment when there is an issue with / var which prevents it from being mounted cleanly until, say, a manual fsck is completed.... :-/ -- -Chuck
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