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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Brendan McAlpine <bmcalpine@macconnect.com>
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Changing root user's shell remotely
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On 2002-04-09 12:40, Brendan McAlpine wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> 
> I have run into a bit of a problem.  For some reason, when I ssh into my
> FreeBSD box and try to su to root, I get this message:
> 
> su: /bin/csh: No such file or directory

Try using "su -m" which will keep your current environment (and use
the same shell as you are using as a user).  Then when your id is
root, use "chsh root".  Note that you -HAVE- to specify "root" to
chsh, since I'm not sure if it will get the user right and might end
up editing your simple user's shell instead :)

Giorgos Keramidas                       FreeBSD Documentation Project
keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr}  http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/

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