From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 19 14:19:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.clientlogic.com (mail-buffalo-usa.clientlogic.com [207.51.66.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09CC217D3B for ; Tue, 19 Oct 1999 14:19:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ChrisMic@clientlogic.com) Received: by site0s1 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Tue, 19 Oct 1999 17:19:20 -0400 Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105D0F@site2s1> From: Christopher Michaels To: "'Brett B. Lanham'" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" Subject: RE: root login Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 17:22:21 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You neglected to mention what version you are running. Your root password is valid, it's complaining that you don't have permission to execute /bin/csh (which is the default shell). You can boot single user to rectify this. To boot into single-user mode: 3.1-RELEASE and earlier: At the boot prompt, type ``-s'' and press enter. 3.2-RELEASE or later: At the boot prompt, type ``boot -s'' and press enter. (quoted from Sheldon) I would then suggest mounting your file systems. (mount -a) Once you've done this all you should have to do is type "chmod 755 /bin/csh" to rectify the problem. Hope this helps, -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Brett B. Lanham [SMTP:lanhabb@hera.wku.edu] > Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 5:15 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: root login > > Evidently I messed something up on install because I am now unable to > login as root. I get : > > login: /bin/csh: Permission denied > > I am certain I am typing the password correct and I am wondering why the > system is trying to throw me into csh. Wouldn't it just give me login > incorrect if my password were bad. anyway since I can't login as root I > can't do a whole lot to correct this. If there is no easy way to correct > this the nI can just reinstall but I would like to be able to fix it w/o > the reinstall. I am still able to login as the userr that I set up during > the install. I glad at least I did that. > > Brett > > > > 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