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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