From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 15:18:34 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 3071337B401 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 15:18:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web20103.mail.yahoo.com (web20103.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.226.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DB61443E3B for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 15:18:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsdneophyte@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20021021221832.20176.qmail@web20103.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [68.65.83.156] by web20103.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 15:18:32 PDT Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 15:18:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Bsd Neophyte Subject: Re: made a mistake with bash path... now i can't login To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20021021220951.GA68907@deter.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 --- Morten Grunnet Buhl wrote: > Do you have local access to the machine? if so cant you just log in as > root? Or have I misunderstood this question completely? no you have it right... this is an option, although i'd like to keep it a last option... disconnecing the machine and moving it would be a huge inconveniance. i was wondering if there was a way to tell the su command to use the /bin/sh shell... instead of what i mistakingly input (/usr/bin/bash). __________________________________________________ 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