Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 02:57:33 -0700 (PDT) From: "Bryan K. Ogawa" <bkogawa@primenet.com> To: s334761@student.uq.edu.au Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: shell. URGENT URGENT URGENT Message-ID: <199804170957.CAA00564@foo.primenet.com> References: <3535D946.751A8624@student.uq.edu.au>
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In localhost.freebsd.questions you write: >Allright boys and girls, here's a doozy: >I was logged in as root, and was playing around (using chpass) with >what shell I was using. I accidentally typed in the wrong path to a >shell and now I can't login as root any more (it says that it can't >find the shell, and returns to the login prompt). >I've only created one other user since installing BSD, and it doesn't >have any privelages to speak of. >How the hell can I get to log in as root again? If I could only get >to the /etc/passwd file! at the boot prompt, use the -s option to boot single user. This will give you a prompt which should ask you for which shell to use. After this, do a mount -a to mount your drives, then you should be able to use chpass to recover. -- bryan k ogawa <bkogawa@primenet.com> http://www.primenet.com/~bkogawa/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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