[geeks] NetBSD Netboot install

Martijn Pronk martijn at smartie.xs4all.nl
Wed Apr 10 11:48:23 CDT 2002


Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> 
> 
> Yep, it won't let me do a darn thing.  In /etc/passwd in my NFS root
> filesystem, the second field is set to *.  I've tried setting to to a
> DES encrypted password, an MD5 password, and blank, but nothing has
> worked.

Maybe you should try editing /etc/master.passwd or even
better, use vipw. /etc/passwd is a generated passwd file
from master.passwd. *BSD uses shadow passwd files.

HTH,

Martijn



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