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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news-xfer.netaxs.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.nacamar.de!news.icm.edu.pl!uw.edu.pl!news.nask.pl!usenet From: Grzegorz Dobrowolski <duzy@pjwstk.waw.pl> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Root password Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 09:05:39 +0100 Organization: polsko-Japońska Wyższa Szkoła Technik Komputerowych Lines: 10 Message-ID: <332E4CD3.7971@pjwstk.waw.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-29.pjwstk.waw.pl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37235 I have a problem with root password. I forgot it. I used -c option in boot command, but I can't change root password because root file system is read only. I can mount device where is root file system elsewhere in read-write mode, but vipw don't change passwd in eg. /mnt/etc... directory What should I do ? Help! Grzeg