Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 19:27:58 -0500 From: Jim Lawrence <jlawrence@home.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: How to get back into root Message-ID: <38E29F8E.2E1A4FC9@home.com>
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Hi, I am new to FreeBSD and new to this list, and really appreciate any answers anybody can give me to the following problem... OK, I did something dumb. While logged in as root, I wondered why I couldn't get previous commands at the command line by using the up arrow as I had on other systems. I looked up something in a book, and without really checking things out or being careful, I did the following: I used chsh to bring up my login configuration, and used vi to change my login shell from /bin/csh to /bin/bash, saved, exited, and logged out. Of course, I never bothered to see if the file /bin/bash actually existed... Now, when I try to log in as root, it runs the beginnings of a session (the stuff you see before the command prompt), then gives the error "/bin/bash - no such file or directory" and brings me back to the login prompt. I can still log in as my username, but I can't get to any root configuration-type things, and I don't have write access to /bin to install the bash on. Any ideas on how I can get back in the system as root without reinstalling? Any help is appreciated. Jim Lawrence To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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