I'm running FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE on a vps running on XEN virtualization, I tried to update it to 9.1-RELEASE but mergemaster toasted my /etc/master.passwd
and /etc/passwd
so what i have now is a blank copies of the two files.
What i did is use a mounted Live CD and mount my root partition to /mnt
and manually re listed every entry to /mnt/etc/master.passwd
and /mnt/etc/passwd
from another freebsd server. I believe that everytime you edit master.passwd
and passwd
you have to run pwd_mkdb
but this gives me "Read Only File"
error.
What I plan to do is enable PermitRootLogin and PermitEmptyPassword first so I can login as root first before I redo necessary changes again. But i have to run pwd_mkdb
, so is there a way to run this command from Live CD?