From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 27 6:48:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from arf.bussert.COM (arf.bussert.com [209.183.67.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C592E15665 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 06:48:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonkman@bussert.com) Received: from arf (53.bussert.com [10.10.10.53]) by arf.bussert.COM (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA32565 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 14:49:32 GMT (envelope-from jonkman@bussert.com) Message-ID: <007a01bf68d5$97f4f880$350a0a0a@bussert.com.Bussert> From: "Matthew Jonkman" To: References: <200001271435.JAA11482@akiva.homer.att.com> Subject: Root login shell problem Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 09:48:36 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I made a typo in my root chsh to point it to /bin/bash rather than /usr/local/bin/bash. As a result I'm locked out of my root account. Even if I login as root from the console it kicks me back out to a login. I don't know much about single user mode. Will this allow me to get back in to change the shell? Thanks ========================================= Matthew Jonkman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message