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Old 28th April 2009
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OK...finally.

I got this right before seeing anomie's post.

But after restoring /etc/master.passwd you need to do the following:

Code:
pwd_mkdb -C /etc/master.passwd
pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd
pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd
this rebuilds /etc/passwd and /etc/pwd.db

after that, I could passwd root to set the password!
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