Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 13:25:53 -0800 (PST) From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> To: malartre@aei.ca (Malartre) Cc: kline@tera.com, alex@targeting.co.uk, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I can't believe I am soo stupid Message-ID: <199811172125.NAA27656@athena.tera.com> In-Reply-To: <3651D3E5.4BF43F7D@aei.ca> from Malartre at "Nov 17, 98 02:52:05 pm"
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According to Malartre: > 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". Hm, well I was _thinking_ -s! THanks for catching this. Yes on vipw. Also, if the system is just power-cycled the filesystems will not be marked clean and need to be fsck'd. Then mounted. gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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