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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.lava.net!coconut!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!stress.noc.demon.net!hdm From: hdm@demon.net (Dominic Mitchell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Root password Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 12:46:12 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Ltd. Message-ID: <slrn5it3kk.884.hdm@stress.noc.demon.net> References: <332E4CD3.7971@pjwstk.waw.pl> Reply-To: hdm@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Host: stress.noc.demon.net X-NNTP-Posting-Host: stress.noc.demon.net X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.3.2 UNIX) Lines: 17 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37258 Earlier, Grzegorz Dobrowolski <duzy@pjwstk.waw.pl> wrote: > 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 Try this to mount the file-system rw: # mount -u -o rw / -Dom -- This posting is not an official communication of Demon Internet Ltd., unless otherwise stated. ---- Work: hdm@demon.net ---- Play: dom-news@myrddin.demon.co.uk ---- non ex transverso sed deorsum