Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 08:18:37 -0700 From: "Brian O'Shea" <boshea@ricochet.net> To: "Eric S . Van Gyzen" <lists@vangyzen.net> Cc: Ahmed Aden <adenbros@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wrong root shell kicks me out when I login Message-ID: <20000501081837.U337@beastie.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20000501102556.B16589@vitaly.vangyzen.net>; from Eric S . Van Gyzen on Mon, May 01, 2000 at 10:25:56AM -0400 References: <20000501140518.31579.qmail@hotmail.com> <20000501102556.B16589@vitaly.vangyzen.net>
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On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 10:25:56AM -0400, Eric S . Van Gyzen wrote: > > Boot into single-user mode and do this to mount the filesystem read-write: > # mount -o rw / > Actually, just this may work: > # mount / You'll want to specify the -u flag to mount, which indecates that the mount options of an already mounted filesystem should be changed. (in single-user mode) # mount -u / Then mount /usr and /var : # mount /usr # mount /var Then use vipw to edit the password file, correcting the path for root's login shell. Good luck, -brian -- Brian O'Shea boshea@ricochet.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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