Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 10:13:27 -0400 (EDT) From: James Snow <snow@teardrop.org> To: Ahmed Aden <adenbros@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wrong root shell kicks me out when I login Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000501101145.32960E-100000@silver.teardrop.org> In-Reply-To: <20000501140518.31579.qmail@hotmail.com>
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On Mon, 1 May 2000, Ahmed Aden wrote:
> By accidentally specifying a bogus path when I did a 'chsh' as root, I
> managed to lock myself out of the 'root' account because as soon as I
> login, it kicks me out. I tried to boot into single user mode with boot
> -s, but it won't let me write to any files in that mode, and that's the
> only mode I can access the 'root' account. I'd rather not re-install the
I believe that in single-user mode the root partition is mounted read-only
by default. Do a 'mount /' or 'mount -a' and you should then be able to
edit root's login shell.
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