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Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 19:27:58 -0500
From: Jim Lawrence <jlawrence@home.com>
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Subject: How to get back into root
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Hi,
I am new to FreeBSD and new to this list, and really appreciate any
answers anybody can give me to the following problem...

OK, I did something dumb. While logged in as root, I wondered why I
couldn't get previous commands at the command line by using the up arrow
as I had on other systems. I looked up something in a book, and without
really checking things out or being careful, I did the following:

I used chsh to bring up my login configuration, and used vi to change my
login shell from /bin/csh to /bin/bash, saved, exited, and logged out.
Of course, I never bothered to see if the file /bin/bash actually
existed...

Now, when I try to log in as root, it runs the beginnings of a session
(the stuff you see before the command prompt), then gives the error
"/bin/bash - no such file or directory" and brings me back to the login
prompt.

I can still log in as my username, but I can't get to any root
configuration-type things, and I don't have write access to /bin to
install the bash on.

Any ideas on how I can get back in the system as root without
reinstalling?

Any help is appreciated.

Jim Lawrence


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