On Tue, 25 Jun 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> [ PLEASE do not cross-post to questions, hackers and bugs! I'm getting
> pretty cheesed-off at people dumping multiple copies of stuff into
> my mailbox and will be adopting a policy shortly of not even responding
> to something which is cross-posted to more than 2 major mailing lists
> (and even 2 is one too many) - if you want a response from me (or anyone
> who feels the same way as me) in the future then please limit your posts
> to a SINGLE list! Thanks!!!]
Sorry! Won't happen again! BTW, what would have been the appropriate
list for this one, questions or bugs? As it did include a number of bug
reports.
> This problem is easy to fix. Boot single user with the `-s' flag and
> then do:
>
Well, that will fix root's password, but what about everyone else's?
*Nobody* can log in right now. The passwd and master.passwd files are
intact. I did run pwd_mkdb.
Thanks for your help.
> mount -u /
> passwd root
> <password>
>
> reboot
>