Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 12:32:56 +0100 (CET) From: "Joost Bekkers" <joost@jodocus.org> To: "Redd Vinylene" <reddvinylene@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Locked myself out.. AGAIN!! Message-ID: <1567.192.168.100.227.1228649576.squirrel@jodocus.org> In-Reply-To: <f1019d520812070204u752a410bw5812dcc3fac04160@mail.gmail.com> References: <f1019d520812070204u752a410bw5812dcc3fac04160@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, December 7, 2008 11:04, Redd Vinylene wrote: > On this dedicated box here I made the mistake of adding a comment to > root's entry in my password file: > > root:*:0:0::/root:/bin/sh # What I thought would be a harmless comment. > > Now I can't su to root. And my ISP is closed on Sundays. Is there any > way I can fix this on my own? > Try `su -m` the man page says it will use your current shell instead of the one in passwd. good luck. Joost.
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