From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 28 16:42:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA00469 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 16:42:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from obiwan.aceonline.com.au (obiwan.aceonline.com.au [203.103.90.67]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA00464 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 16:42:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (adrian@localhost) by obiwan.aceonline.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA01935; Sat, 1 Mar 1997 14:45:58 +0800 (WST) Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 14:45:57 +0800 (WST) From: Adrian Chadd 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 Try on the boot line: -s Will drop you into single-user mode, and yuo'll have a root shell. Don't worry, I'm sure we've all done this once *grin* Cya. Adrian. 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. > > 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 >