Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 10:25:56 -0400 From: "Eric S . Van Gyzen" <lists@vangyzen.net> To: Ahmed Aden <adenbros@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wrong root shell kicks me out when I login Message-ID: <20000501102556.B16589@vitaly.vangyzen.net> In-Reply-To: <20000501140518.31579.qmail@hotmail.com>; from adenbros@hotmail.com on Mon, May 01, 2000 at 02:05:17PM %2B0000 References: <20000501140518.31579.qmail@hotmail.com>
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On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 02:05:17PM +0000, Ahmed Aden wrote: > Hello, > > By accidentally specifying a bogus path when I did a 'chsh' as root, I > managed to lock myself out of the 'root' account because as soon as I > login, it kicks me out. I tried to boot into single user mode with boot > -s, but it won't let me write to any files in that mode, and that's the > only mode I can access the 'root' account. I'd rather not re-install the > software, but at this point, I'm out of fresh ideas. Perhaps there is a > way to enable disk writing in single user mode, but I'm really not sure > how that works, I'm not sure I'm on the mailing list, but please e-mail > aaden@qwestip.net. Boot into single-user mode and do this to mount the filesystem read-write: # mount -o rw / Actually, just this may work: # mount / (I'm not on a FreeBSD box right now or I'd try it...) -- Eric To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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