From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 28 16:05:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA27407 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 16:05:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from echoes.webmrkt.com (root@echoes.webmrkt.com [207.25.212.15]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA27401 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 16:04:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from echoes.webmrkt.com (falcon@echoes.webmrkt.com [207.25.212.15]) by echoes.webmrkt.com (8.7.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA07750 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 19:01:06 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <331771C1.FF6D5DF@gersh.org> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 19:01:05 -0500 From: Ravi Pina Organization: Web Marketing, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; BSD/OS 2.0 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Invalid Shell Lockout Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Well, I seemt o have supplied an invalid shell for root, so when I want to su over it gives me a Permission denied! I appear to be completely locked out of the system as a result... any idea what I can do to overcome this problem? It owuld be nice if it just fell back to /bin/sh or something so you can login even if you're a dork like me. Thanks! -ravi -- Ravi Pina * "I am forbidden to produce milk. In cyberland, Systems Administrator * we only drink Diet Coke(tm)." - RENT Web Marketing, Inc. * "Its 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full falcon@webmrkt.com * tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, its http://www.webmrkt.com * dark and we're wearing sunglasses." - Blu'B'rs