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From: cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
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Subject: Re: [386BSD] /etc/spwd.db lost, can't log in
Date: 18 Jan 93 01:28:24
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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In-reply-to: j.laidman@cowan.edu.au's message of 18 Jan 93 09:14:51 GMT
In article <jeremy.727348491@scorpion.ac.cowan.edu.au> j.laidman@cowan.edu.au (Jeremy Laidman) writes:
>Now I can't login in multiuser mode. It says invalid /etc/spwd.db.
>Is there some way I can make a new one?
boot the puppy single-user, and say "pwd_mkdb" (it's in /usr/sbin)
alternately, if you can only get into single-user mode w/a fixit floppy,
mount your root fs on /mnt, mount the /usr fs on /mnt/usr, and say:
/mnt/usr/sbin/chroot /mnt /usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb
then sync, unmount everything, and reboot...
good luck!
chris
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Chris G. Demetriou cgd@cs.berkeley.edu
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