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From: charnier@lirmm.fr (Philippe CHARNIER)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: change the super user password
Date: 31 May 1994 12:02:50 GMT
Organization: LIRM - Montpellier France
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Message-ID: <CHARNIER.94May31140250@baobab.lirmm.fr>
References: <2s5rfj$j90@imladris.frmug.fr.net> <1994May31.081353.5519@news.qut.edu.au>
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In-reply-to: babak@scorpio.sprc.qut.edu.au's message of Tue, 31 May 94 08:13:53 GMT
>>>>> "Babak" == Babak Mohajerin <babak@scorpio.sprc.qut.edu.au> writes:
In article <1994May31.081353.5519@news.qut.edu.au> babak@scorpio.sprc.qut.edu.au (Babak Mohajerin) writes:
Babak> Hi I have received a 486 pc running NetBSD without the
Babak> superuser password. I tried to change it by going to single
Babak> user mode and edit /etc/passwd and
Babak> /etc/master.passwd. Althought I was able to do that, I
you must use passwd to change a passwd and vipw to edit the passwd file
(vipw do vi and REBUILD the passwd database)
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