From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 17 6: 1:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kcmso1.proxy.att.com (kcmso1.att.com [192.128.133.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B39737B6B3 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 06:01:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jwb@homer.att.com) Received: from ulysses.homer.att.com ([135.205.193.4]) by kcmso1.proxy.att.com (AT&T IPNS/MSO-2.2) with ESMTP id JAA17710; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 09:00:53 -0500 (EST) Received: from akiva.homer.att.com (akiva.homer.att.com [135.205.198.103]) by ulysses.homer.att.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA15734; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 09:00:52 -0500 (EST) Received: from akiva.homer.att.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by akiva.homer.att.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA20528; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 09:00:52 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200002171400.JAA20528@akiva.homer.att.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.3 3/22/1999 To: Ruslan Ermilov Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: passwd file repair In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 17 Feb 2000 15:43:40 +0200." <20000217154340.A31400@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 09:00:51 -0500 From: "J. W. Ballantine" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ---------- In Response to your message ------------- > Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 15:43:40 +0200 > To: "J. W. Ballantine" > From: Ruslan Ermilov > Subject: Re: passwd file repair > > 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. done with mount -a -a ufs and I did check and it is, infact when I ls -ltr /usr/bin/vi it is displayed. > 2. Make sure /usr/bin is in your PATH environment variable. I did, it is. It fails with ex/vi not found even when I try to run /usr/bin/vi. Seems to be a console issue??? Thanks Jim > > -- > Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the > ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank, > ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, > +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine > > http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve > http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message