Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 19:52:29 -0000 From: Alex Knowles <alex@targeting.co.uk> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: I can't believe I am soo stupid Message-ID: <615CAC0140CED111AF1500805FEDDB8A094AEA@ns.new-mediacom.co.uk>
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Thanks alot for all this, and I've tried to edit the passwd file, however the / partition is mounted read-only, a dodgy friend of mine is sending me a low level editor we'll see -----Original Message----- From: Malartre [mailto:malartre@aei.ca] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 1998 7:52 PM To: Gary Kline Cc: Alex Knowles; questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I can't believe I am soo stupid 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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