From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 25 18:17:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from twwells.com (mtholly-pri-13.ppp.netaxs.com [207.8.237.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 00E8714E2C for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 18:17:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from news@twwells.com) Received: from news by twwells.com with local (Exim 1.71 #2) id 12DHx6-00025j-00; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 21:13:00 -0500 From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: passwd, root, single user problem! Message-ID: <86lkua$7dn$1@twwells.com> References: Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 21:13:00 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article , 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 Because you don't have your filesystems mounted. Prior to that, the root file system is mounted read-only, which is why the above message. Enter the following commands: /sbin/fsck -p /sbin/mount -a and then you can run vipw. (Leaving off the /sbin will work if the PATH variable is set up correctly.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message