From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 27 13:57:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wilsonandhorton.co.nz (fw2.wilsonandhorton.co.nz [203.99.66.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28EE137BBDF for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 13:57:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@itouch.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by wilsonandhorton.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA00935; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 08:56:27 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 08:56:27 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: worldly BSD Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: unable to login after changing shell as root Message-ID: <20000628085627.A873@jonc.ntdns.wilsonandhorton.co.n> References: <20000627152856.23632.qmail@web5305.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000627152856.23632.qmail@web5305.mail.yahoo.com>; from worldlybsd@yahoo.com on Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 08:28:56AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 08:28:56AM -0700, worldly BSD wrote: > Christopher, > > your example assumes that i made another user account. > yes, i know that i should have done that BEFORE i > started mucking around but i did not. i tried stopping > the bootup process and signing into single user mode > but i'm afraid i was unable to do anything ??? You have to do a `mount -a' before you can write to your file-system. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "If everything's under control, you're going too slow" - Mario Andretti To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message