From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 14:54:49 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 625B337B401 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 14:54:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gbronline.com (mail.gbronline.com [12.145.226.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA83643E4A for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 14:54:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daleco@daleco.biz) Received: from DaleCoportable [12.145.236.21] by mail.gbronline.com (SMTPD32-7.13) id A7491338022A; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 16:53:13 -0500 Message-ID: <00b601c2794b$d3bc0d20$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable> From: "DaleCo, S.P.---'the solutions people'" To: Cc: References: <20021021212825.87801.qmail@web20108.mail.yahoo.com> <3DB4758D.4070405@xs4all.nl> Subject: Re: made a mistake with bash path... now i can't login Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 16:50:08 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 Do you have a passwd for "toor"? KDK ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robin Schilham" To: "Bsd Neophyte" Cc: Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 4:45 PM Subject: Re: made a mistake with bash path... now i can't login > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message