From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 14 04:47:01 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA25556 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 04:47:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gal.netlab.sk (gal.netlab.sk [195.168.1.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA25551 for ; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 04:46:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lists@gal.netlab.sk) Received: from gericom-tps (nobody@qwyx.netlab.sk [195.168.0.2]) by gal.netlab.sk (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id NAA08210 for ; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:46:51 +0100 (CET) Reply-To: From: "Tomas TPS Ulej" To: Subject: RE: root password Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:58 +0100 Message-ID: <003d01be5817$f807b7a0$684ea8c3@gericom-tps.tps.sk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of wildcardus > freakis > Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 1999 10:52 PM > To: Adam Simpson > Cc: admin; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: root password > > you also have to mount the partitions that are in the fstab file, when you > reboot into single user mode everything is read-only > > issuing the command: > > mount -a > > will successfully remount all your partitions as you have them specified > in fstab. Then you can try use automaticly backuped passwd files located in /var/backup & copy it into orginal (/etc) locations. -- Tomas TPS Ulej System Administrator tps@internet.sk, tu36-ripe ISP TELENOR Internet, NETLAB Network, Slovakia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message