Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 10:06:33 +0200 (CEST) From: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Gannater_J=E1nos?= <gannater@freemail.hu> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: passwd Message-ID: <freemail.20030428100633.71834@fm6.freemail.hu>
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Hello, > Another newbie here, had a similar prob myself, try a reboot, and hit > any key (other than enter) before the kernel boots. Then go boot -s > (this boots you into single user mode) the type passwd, this will set > the root password, You can now log in as root, then > go /stand/sysinstall and you can add yourself as a user again. I thought of the same idea as well. My question is that how could it be that there is a user in the /etc/passwd file, but it doesn't exists. So I think there is a database and the /etc/passwd file that stores the user information. How can I compare them?
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