Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 16:53:08 -0500 (EST) From: Spike Gronim <spork@pigstuy.dyn.ml.org> To: Alex Knowles <alex@targeting.co.uk> Cc: "Questions (E-mail)" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: I can't believe I am soo stupid Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981117165122.274B-100000@PigStuy.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <615CAC0140CED111AF1500805FEDDB8A094AE8@ns.new-mediacom.co.uk>
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On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Alex Knowles wrote: > 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 > Mr Stupid > (alex) I know of two ways to fix this. If you have "sudo" on your system, type "sudo my_favorite_editor /etc/passwd" and change root's shell to /usr/local/bin/tcsh, which is where tcsh usually gets installed to. Or, you can boot to single-user mode (the -s option at boot time) and hit enter when it asks you for a shell. Then you can edit /etc/passwd and reboot the system. -Spike Gronim sporkl@ix.netcom.com The majority only rules those who let them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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