Subject: Re: Forgotten password help?
To: Ken Nakata <kenn@synap.ne.jp>
From: Alex Zepeda <jazepeda@pacbell.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/27/1999 18:59:02
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Ken Nakata wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Aug 1999 18:05:28 -0400, "Michael G. Schabert" <mikeride@prez.org> wrote:
> >
> > You should boot into single-user mode, do a vipw, delete the
> > encrypted password & then exit to multi-user mode.
>
> I was going to suggest this. Just don't forget "mount -u /" before
> "vipw", though. If /usr is on a separate fs from /, "mount /usr" is
> also needed. And probably "export TERM=vt220", too.
Ehm, vt100 that is :^)
- alex
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