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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!daffy!uwvax!tricia!news.sprintlink.net!news-chi-13.sprintlink.net!zdc-e!super.zippo.com!zdc!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: [sing boot] help Date: 30 Oct 1996 18:31:31 -0000 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 15 Sender: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <5586u3$4eo@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <554trf$2lu@usenet.kornet.nm.kr> Reply-To: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: anorak.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 In article <554trf$2lu@usenet.kornet.nm.kr>, comlab@taeback.kornet.nm.kr (DongHo Lee (kornet)) writes: : in first, I reboot with single mode ( on booting, I put "-s" option) : but I can olny mount root with read-only. I can't modified or : copy the other files related to passwd. I tried to copy spwd.db of : other freeBSD machine to my system . I failed. If (in single-user mode) you "mount -u /", "mount /usr" and "pwd_mkdb", your problems should go away. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... .