Follow-up: After running the mount command and using the -o rw option I do an ls -l on /mnt and it does show files with the write permission including /mnt/etc/master.passwd.
-Mathew "When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all." - God; Futurama "We'll get along much better once you accept that you're wrong and neither am I." - Me On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Mathew Snyder <[email protected]>wrote: > Getting closer, thanks. I've mounted the slice with mount -o rw > /dev/da0s1a /mnt. However, when I chroot into /mnt passwd isn't found > and editing the /etc/master.passwd file still gives a read-only error. > > -Mathew > > "When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at > all." - God; Futurama > > "We'll get along much better once you accept that you're wrong and > neither am I." - Me > > > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 3:11 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 02:50:23PM -0400, Mathew Snyder wrote: >> > I've booted to installation media and selected the single-user mode. >> I've >> > got the shell but when I attempt to follow the steps I've found on >> various >> > sites it doesn't work. Generally, they all follow the same procedure: >> > >> > mount -a (or mount -u /) >> > passwd >> >> This only works if the entries are in fstab, which obviously they won't >> be if you're booting from a CD. >> >> Mount them manually (e.g. `mount /dev/da0s1a /mnt`) and then chroot into >> /mnt to run `passwd`. >> >> >
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