On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 08:18:47PM +0100, Jumping Mouse wrote: > Hi there, I have inherited an openBSD machine with no root account. When I > boot up in single user mode boot -s and do a cat /etc/master.passwd | root > the only thing I get is: daemon:*:1:1::0:0:The devil > himself:/root:/sbin/nologin I can't seem to make changes to the master.passwd > account by using vipw in single usermode. I get a message that the file is > locked or busy. Can anyone help in what I can do next? How can I add the > root account back to the master.passwd file. thanks. >
you are getting this message because / is mounted read-only in single user mode. to use vipw you will have to manually mount / read/write and mount /usr if it is on its own partition. Gilles -- Gilles Chehade http://www.evilkittens.org/ http://www.evilkittens.org/blog/gilles/
