On Saturday 12 July 2003 10:14 pm, David Demland wrote:
> Eric,
>
> Thank you so much. I have been able to repair all the boxes, except the
> FreeBDS box with this information.
>
> mount -n -o remount,rw /
>
> The 'passwd' command should work after you do this.

For FreeBSD, it is

mount -u -o rw /

I found that command by looking for 'mount' in /etc/rc (the startup) on 
FreeBSD. I found the Linux equivalent by looking at /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit on 
my Mandrake laptop (BadTux's Internet server runs on FreeBSD because I make 
heavy use of FreeBSD's jail functionality, which Linux doesn't have at the 
moment, other than the very resource-hogging User Mode Linux method). Knowing 
what gets executed on system startup is one of the things that's very handy 
with Unix (any Unix). 

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