Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 14:52:05 -0500 From: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca> To: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> Cc: Alex Knowles <alex@targeting.co.uk>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I can't believe I am soo stupid Message-ID: <3651D3E5.4BF43F7D@aei.ca> References: <199811171853.KAA26531@athena.tera.com>
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Gary Kline wrote: > > According to Alex Knowles: > [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > > doh, > > I have just locked myself out of my bsd 3 box > > I tried to change the shell that root uses by editing the passwd file and > > put in > > /usr/bin/tcsh > > When i try and log in as root it says that it can't find bin/tcsh > > and dumps me back to a login prompt > > Please help (preferably kindly!) > > thanks alot > > > Shutdown and reboot the system. Bring it up in single-user > mode by typing ``-b'' at the > > boot: > > prompt. > > There is a more detailed explaination in the Answerman column > of Daemon News a month or so ago. > > gary kline. > It's "-s" I think, not "-b". Also, to edit the password file, I think you need to run "vipw". -- [Malartre][malartre@aei.ca][http://www.lowrent.org/freebsd/malartre/] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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