From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 27 07:43:07 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B19D316A4BF for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 07:43:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.x9media.com (mail.x9media.com [62.75.136.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 173D843FE1 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 07:43:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thomas.may@x9media.com) X-AuthUser: thomas.may@x9media.com Received: from notebook (217.82.27.85:36209) by smtp.x9media.com with [XMail 1.16 (FreeBSD/Ix86) ESMTP Server] ; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 16:48:35 +0200 From: "thomas may" To: Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 16:42:22 +0200 Message-ID: <000001c36ca9$70c223b0$8b01a8c0@notebook> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 08:45:30 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: no root login after changing shell X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 14:43:07 -0000 Hi, i wanted to change the shell for user root to bash. in the freebsd online handbook i found this command: # echo "/usr/local/bin/bash" >> /etc/shells but what i didnt know at this moment, that i have to install bash before. so i logged of as user root and get now on login the following error: su: /usr/local/bin/bash: No such file or directory can anybody please help me ... thanx - thomas