[BBLISA] Reset root password on FreeBSD

[Mathew Snyder]

Follow-up: After running the mount command and using the -o rw option I do
an ls -l on /mnt and it does show files with the write permission including
/mnt/etc/master.passwd.

-Mathew

"When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at
all." - God; Futurama

"We'll get along much better once you accept that you're wrong and neither
am I." - Me



On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Mathew Snyder <mathew.snyder at gmail.com>wrote:

> Getting closer, thanks. I've mounted the slice with mount -o rw
> /dev/da0s1a /mnt. However, when I chroot into  /mnt passwd isn't found
> and editing the /etc/master.passwd file still gives a read-only error.
>
> -Mathew
>
> "When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at
> all." - God; Futurama
>
> "We'll get along much better once you accept that you're wrong and
> neither am I." - Me
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 3:11 PM, <kurin at delete.org> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 02:50:23PM -0400, Mathew Snyder wrote:
>> > I've booted to installation media and selected the single-user mode.
>> I've
>> > got the shell but when I attempt to follow the steps I've found on
>> various
>> > sites it doesn't work. Generally, they all follow the same procedure:
>> >
>> > mount -a (or mount -u /)
>> > passwd
>>
>> This only works if the entries are in fstab, which obviously they won't
>> be if you're booting from a CD.
>>
>> Mount them manually (e.g. `mount /dev/da0s1a /mnt`) and then chroot into
>> /mnt to run `passwd`.
>>
>>
>
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