Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 08:28:56 -0700 (PDT) From: worldly BSD <worldlybsd@yahoo.com> To: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: unable to login after changing shell as root Message-ID: <20000627152856.23632.qmail@web5305.mail.yahoo.com>
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Christopher, your example assumes that i made another user account. yes, i know that i should have done that BEFORE i started mucking around but i did not. i tried stopping the bootup process and signing into single user mode but i'm afraid i was unable to do anything ??? --- Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> wrote: > > > worldly BSD wrote: > > > > while reading the handbook i decided to change my > > shell by following the example > > > > " % chsh -s /usr/local/bin/bash" > > > > i was root at the time and everything seemed to go > ok > > but now i can not login because of the following > error > > > > "/usr/local/bin/bash: no such file or directory " > > > > any suggestion ? > > % su > Password: > # chsh -s /bin/sh > # cd /usr/ports/shells/bash > # make all install clean > [snip] > # ^D > % su - > bash-2.0# > > Alternatively, use the toor account to change roots' > shell back to > /bin/sh. > > First check if the shell you wish to use is > installed in your system. > > HTH > -Christoph Sold __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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