Ross Penner wrote:
On 8/8/06, Pete Slagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I followed your steps but the problem remains. The /etc/passwd file is
edited but I still can't logon as root. When I changed the shell initially,
I used chpass. I
also tried changeing the /etc/master.passwd file to no avail.
As mentioned by others: did you remount the root partition rw? In single
user mode it is mounted read-only. 2nd: Did you use vipw, the pw
command or just vi?
If you can see your changes in the master.passwd file, then you might
just need to rebuild the db files while still in single-user mode:
# pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd
# pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd
If this fails, maybe some strange character sneaked in and building the
database fails. Then you can recover the original master.passwd from the
sources, /usr/src/etc/master.passwd, you still have to rebuild the db files.
Cheers, Erik
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