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Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 09:23:09 +0800
From: "jan gestre" <freebsd.ph@gmail.com>
To: ross <ross.penner@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Changing root's shell
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On 8/9/06, ross <ross.penner@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> so it seems changed root login's shell to /usr/bin/bash which doesn't
> exist. now I can't login to root at all. Oh yes, sudo isn't installed. How
> would you grand masters of FreeBSD fix my embarrasing mistake.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
>
login using single user mode during bootup then revert back to old shell
using:

# pw user mod root -s /bin/csh

since your familiar with bash you can make csh behave like bash by editing
.cshrc and adding set autolist.

HTH