Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 13:11:47 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> To: ". ." <corinthian420@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: why we don't mess with root's shell: Re: Need help with Root shell? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990526130557.9491o-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <19990526160034.39939.qmail@hotmail.com>
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On Wed, 26 May 1999, . . wrote: WOOT! Yet another reason why not to change root's 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 Don't change root's shell to anything else. meanwhile try this: su root -c /bin/sh then to change your shell back to "sh" like god inteneded: chsh good luck, -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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