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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 15:43:40 +0200
From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>
To: "J. W. Ballantine" <jwb@homer.att.com>
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Subject: Re: passwd file repair
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On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 08:10:17AM -0500, J. W. Ballantine wrote:
> 
> Since the questions search/browse is down on freebsd.org, I'm asking for
> some help in repairing the passwd file that I managed to mess up.
> 
> I boot in single user mode, enter:
>   mount -u /
>   mount -t -a ufs
>   swapon -a
> 
> and then enter vipw, to which I get ex/vi not found.
> 
> What else/does one need to do to run vipw in single user mode,
> or what needs to be done to rebuild the shadow passwd file if I
> edit passwd with ex???
> 
1. Check that your /usr filesystem is mounted, and you have /usr/bin/vi.
2. Make sure /usr/bin is in your PATH environment variable.

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