> >Normally at boot time the filesystem is mounted readonly just before
> >doing a file system check. If that passes as it will normally then
> >the system is remounted in a read-write state. You need to mount it
> >in a read-write state. I think you can just run:
> >
> > mount -n -o remount,rw /
> >
> >That will mount it readwrite and you will be able to edit the password
> >file.
make sure to remount it with option ro (instead of rw) before you exit
the shell or restart the machine!
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