Subject: Re: Login problem after upgrade to 3.0
To: Chuck Zmudzinski <brchuck@hotmail.com>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/19/2006 22:29:57
On Jan 19,  9:26pm, brchuck@hotmail.com (Chuck Zmudzinski) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: Login problem after upgrade to 3.0

| Christos Zoulas wrote:
| 
| >Did you run postinstall fix? There is a probably missing /etc/pam.d directory
| >which you can find in /usr/src/etc. You should be able to boot single user
| >for that and fix it.
| >  
| >
| Actually booting single user didn't work for me because /etc is in the 
| root filesystem and it is read-only when I boot single user using boot 
| -s hd0a:netbsd. Is there a way to boot in single user mode and also 
| write to the root filesystem? Anyway, I added the /etc/pam.d files using 
| a boot floppies, and then I was able to login and now I have a working 
| 3.0 system! Thanks.

mount -u -o rw /

christos