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Date:      22 Feb 2002 13:45:03 -0500
From:      Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, messmate@free.fr
Subject:   Re: shell
Message-ID:  <44y9hls6ds.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020222105518.540E517F07@postfix3-2.free.fr>
References:  <20020222105518.540E517F07@postfix3-2.free.fr>

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mess-mate <messmate@free.fr> writes:

> Hello all,
> I did a mistake when chaning my shell.
> Did a chsh and would change chsh to bash in vi.
> Vi is not my favorite editer.
> So an escape : w must write the changes, isn't.
> Something goes wrong and now I'm without a shell and can no more 
> login as ROOT .
> No su as user (wheel permission) also of course.
> Is ther any way to restore my shell ?
> Thanks in advance.

This is a Frequently Asked Question.

"I made a mistake in rc.conf, or another startup file, and now I
cannot edit it because the filesystem is read-only. What should I do?"
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#RCCONF-READONLY


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