Eric,

Thank you so much. I have been able to repair all the boxes, except the
FreeBDS box with this information.

David

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[mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Eric
Lee Green
Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 2:24 PM
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: Root password problems


On Saturday 12 July 2003 12:57 pm, David Demland wrote:
> command to regenerate the shadow file. I can not do this on these machines
> because they have mounted the root file system as read-only and will not
> allow me to update the shadow file. What do I have to do to fix this
> problem so I can run the passwd command on these machines?

You need to remount the root file system read-write. To do that:

mount -n -o remount,rw /

The 'passwd' command should work after you do this.

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Eric Lee Green  mailto:eric@badtux.org
Unix/Linux/Storage Software Engineer needs job --
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