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Subject: kern/3364: Cannot Login as root
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>Number:         3364
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       Cannot Login as root
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Apr 21 00:50:01 PDT 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Samath Wijesundera
>Organization:
Sri Lanka Telecom
>Release:        2.1.5
>Environment:
FreeBSD
>Description:
When you change the login shell using vipw of the root to 
a file name that is not existing file name, you can never login as 
root to  change the setting back
>How-To-Repeat:
Change the login shell using the vipw utility 
>Fix:
do not know
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: