Originally posted by Maciek Kanski

> On 15 Jan 2003 19:11:33 -0800, A M wrote:

> > Now I cant login/su or do anything and for the life of me,
> cannot

> > figure out how to login and suppress or use another shell.

>

> Well, U have to mount wd0a (on /mnt) when booting from install
> floppy/cdrom.

> Then edit manually /mnt/etc/master.passwd (with ed?) and run:

> pwd_mkdb -d /mnt/etc /mnt/etc/master.passwd

>

> Regards



How we can use the ed command to edit the read-only file? I did try,
the system

doesn't allow me doing this.



I tried to run pwd_mkdb, but the system cannot find it.



How I can edit themaster.passwd file and then run pwd_mkdb?



Thanks,



El


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