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Date:      Mon, 5 Oct 1998 12:47:41 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com>
To:        sghalyoun@rens.com (Sam Ghalyoun)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problem with my freebsd
Message-ID:  <199810051747.MAA14637@horton.iaces.com>
In-Reply-To: <6F20CB2E234FD111AFAA00A0C976AAE047A996@ohexch.tri.com> from Sam Ghalyoun at "Oct 5, 98 01:14:35 pm"

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In a previous message, Sam Ghalyoun said:
> Hi
> 
> I have changed the shell of the root account to a new path but the path was
> wrong, so now every time I login it logs in and out immediately, and comes
> back with an error message saying that the shell does not exist.
> I tried to login as a single user mode, and it did but the file system was
> in read only mode, so I can not save any edited file.

in single user mode:

mount /
fsck /usr
mount /usr
vipw 


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