From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 28 16:34:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA29854 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 16:34:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (root@brosenga.Pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA29849 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 16:34:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (ben@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA18719; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 16:34:04 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 16:34:04 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre To: Ravi Pina cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Invalid Shell Lockout In-Reply-To: <331771C1.FF6D5DF@gersh.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, Ravi Pina wrote: > 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. Boot to single-user mode and change it. > Thanks! > > -ravi > > -- > Ravi Pina * "I am forbidden to produce milk. In cyberland, > Systems Administrator * we only drink Diet Coke(tm)." - RENT ^^^^^^^^^ what's that, some kinda wuss version of Jolt? :) > 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 > Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."