Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 11:03:57 -0500 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Alejandro_Ram=EDrez?= <ales@megared.net.mx> To: ". ." <corinthian420@hotmail.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Need help with Root shell? Message-ID: <01a201bea791$5caeab00$f9a3f9cf@megared.net.mx> References: <19990526160034.39939.qmail@hotmail.com>
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Hi,
You could reboot your system, and boot it as a single user "boot -s"
then "mount /" and your filesystems "mount -a" then write "passwd" and
change root password, finally reboot your system and you are done.
Ales
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From: . . <corinthian420@hotmail.com>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 1999 11:00 AM
Subject: Need help with Root shell?
> Please Help.
> I dont know what I did, my BSD box has not been rebooted in a while so it
> could have been anything in the past few weeks! The last thing I was doing
> was adding users. But now I can not log in as root! I get an error
> "login: /bin/bash [-login]: no such file or directory
>
> I have no idea how that [-login] got in there but I suspect that has
> something to do with it. .I tried to remove it from /etc/passwd but
ofcourse
> I have to be SU to do that and I can not SU for the same reason I can not
> get root.
>
> Obviously I am fairly new at this... but any help would be appreciated!
> thanks in advance
>
> corinthian420@hotmail.com
>
>
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