Thanks Bob! On 4/12/06, Bob Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Because passwd is actually a big old command that uses > lots of shared libraries. - and may use other network > calls, such as yp or kerberos. commands in /bin are staticly > linked. > > The short answer is if you want to do things like > vi or passwd in single user mode - mount /usr - it's not that > hard. > > having said that I never run passwd to recover a root > password, I just use ed on /etc/master.passwd, paste in a copy > of a blowfish password I know and run pwd_mkdb > > -Bob > > * Joco Salvatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-04-12 08:37]: > > Hi all, > > > > I'd like to know why 'passwd' is located in /usr/bin, since this > > command is very important for system maintenance purposes. Wouldn't it > > be better 'passwd' being located in /bin? Because generally /usr has > > its own partition, and then, when entering in single user mode for any > > reason or even to recover root password we are to mount /usr partition > > in order to run 'passwd'. I'm asking it because I've faced this > > problem sometime ago. An OpenBSD server was installed by a sysadmin > > that travelled as he had quit the job. Then when I assumed this > > responsability (being a sysadmin) no one could tell me the superuser > > password, because no one knew that information, thus I had to enter in > > single user mode, but in order to run 'passwd' I had to mount /usr. > > > > Thanks > > > > -- > > Joco Salvatti > > Undergraduating in Computer Science > > Federal University of Para - UFPA > > web: http://www.openbsd-pa.org > > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > | | | The ASCII Fork Campaign > \|/ against gratuitous use of threads. > | >
-- Joco Salvatti Undergraduating in Computer Science Federal University of Para - UFPA web: http://www.openbsd-pa.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
