From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 25 18: 9:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.twave.net (twave.net [206.100.228.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EE50314E95 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 18:09:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) Received: from [208.219.234.48] by mail.twave.net (NTMail 3.03.0018/1.abwg) with ESMTP id ma193322 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 21:07:20 -0500 Message-ID: <388E57C5.CE78F761@twave.net> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 21:11:17 -0500 From: Walter Brameld X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Victor Y. Dominguez" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: passwd, root, single user problem! References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Victor Y. Dominguez" wrote: > > I just install Fbsd 3.4 on my pc. I change the root passwd after > installation, but when was time to login it didn't let me. So then I boot > as a single user and tried to change my passwd. But then I realized that I > couldn't open any file. I get errors like this: > > #vipw > vipw: /etc/pw.KaK119: Read-only file system > > thanks > I hope this is correct as I am not a FreeBSD guru. Boot up as single user and go to the shell prompt. Then type the following commands: # fsck -p # mount -u / # mount -a -t ufs # swapon -a Your slices should now be mounted read/write and you ought to be good to go. -- Walter in·tel·lec·tu·al n. Someone who has been educated past his/her level of intelligence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message