Hi! On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 02:39:18PM +0100, Hannah Schroeter wrote: >On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 07:27:56AM -0600, Phusion wrote: >>I am looking for advice on how to reset the root password on an >>OpenBSD system that has console set to insecure in /etc/ttys. I have >>booted off the install CD and into the shell and mounted the / >>partition read-write, but don't have access to vi to modify >>/etc/master.passwd. I was thinking I could clear out the root password >>and afterwards run pwd_mkdb. Let me know. Thanks.
>If you mount the original / partition (like in mount /dev/wd0a /mnt), >you can then mount /usr, /var, too (e.g. mount /dev/wd0d /mnt/usr, mount >/dev/wd0e /mnt/var). Then you can chroot into your system: >/mnt/usr/sbin/chroot /mnt /bin/ksh. Then you can setup the terminal >(export TERM=pcvt25) and the editor (export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi) and >use vipw. Of course, after chroot you could also use the passwd command (passwd root) to directly set a new password for root (and perhaps your own user account if you've lost that password too). passwd doesn't ask the old password if you use it as root. And then, perhaps setup sudo so you can get root from your user account... Kind regards, Hannah.
