From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 14:45: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1CE937B401 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 14:44:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtpzilla1.xs4all.nl (smtpzilla1.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC83843E65 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 14:44:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from co9@xs4all.nl) Received: from xs4all.nl (a194-109-252-84.adsl.xs4all.nl [194.109.252.84]) by smtpzilla1.xs4all.nl (8.12.0/8.12.0) with ESMTP id g9LLiuMZ036049; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 23:44:56 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3DB4758D.4070405@xs4all.nl> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 23:45:49 +0200 From: Robin Schilham User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021006 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bsd Neophyte Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: made a mistake with bash path... now i can't login References: <20021021212825.87801.qmail@web20108.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bsd Neophyte wrote: >i was changing the login shell from sh to bash... but i entered the wrong >location. now, i cannot login to the system using that account, which is >the only accout that i can su to root from. > > If you have any other non-root account which you can use to login, perhaps you can try to login using one of those accounts and then use su to login to the "bash" account with the -m option. See su manual. Robin >does anyone know how i can resolve this issue w/o taking the system out of >the garage, booting into single user mode and manually changing the path? > >__________________________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site >http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message