Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 16:35:33 -0400 From: Brendan McAlpine <bmcalpine@macconnect.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Changing root user's shell remotely Message-ID: <B8D8C8D5.BF84%bmcalpine@macconnect.com> In-Reply-To: <20020409180544.GM67632@hades.hell.gr>
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That did the trick.
Thanks a bunch. I looked through the man page for su but I guess I looked
right over the -m option.
Brendan
> From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
> Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 21:05:45 +0300
> To: Brendan McAlpine <bmcalpine@macconnect.com>
> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: Changing root user's shell remotely
>
> 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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