Re: changing root password.

2004-04-06 Thread Richard P. Williamson
Thanks, that's got it. vipw(8) was what I needed, in that it allows one to keep the databases in sync with the password files, which was more the problem. rip At 11:48 05/04/2004, Julien Gabel wrote: I've got a 4.8R system that I use for development of a 'freebsd-small' type network device.

Re: changing root password.

2004-04-05 Thread Julien Gabel
I've got a 4.8R system that I use for development of a 'freebsd-small' type network device. The network device environment runs out of memory, the kernel and an mfsroot.gz image coming from a 32Mb pccard Compact Flash drive. The mfsroot.gz development image is stored as a vnconfig vn0

Re: changing root password

2004-04-05 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 12:37, Richard P. Williamson wrote: The behavior I'm seeing is that the /original/ /etc/ password files and databases are updated, and not the [/mnt]/etc/ password files. if you have access to mount_null then _maybe_ you can mount_null /mnt/etc /original/etc and then