Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 17:30:28 -0400 From: "Christian S ." <cschreiber@netrail.net> To: Bud Roth <bud_roth@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Gary Nye <gary@consys.com> Subject: Re: hacked /etc/passwd and can't reboot Message-ID: <20010605173028.E753@netrail.net> In-Reply-To: <20010605212017.45515.qmail@web10004.mail.yahoo.com>; from bud_roth@yahoo.com on Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 02:20:17PM -0700 References: <3B1D495A.223E1EE1@consys.com> <20010605212017.45515.qmail@web10004.mail.yahoo.com>
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Look into booting in single-user mode, (As if you were rebuilding the kernel (boot -s from the boot menu)), and mount the drives in read/write mode, and then "chfn root", or vipw should do it as well.. Good luck! On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 02:20:17PM -0700, Bud Roth babbled: > Delivered-To: cschreiber@netrail.net > Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 14:20:17 -0700 (PDT) > From: Bud Roth <bud_roth@yahoo.com> > Subject: hacked /etc/passwd and can't reboot > To: questions@freebsd.org > > I wanted FreeBSD to boot into bash, not sh, so I > changed the default shell for the two users on my > system (bud and root) in the file /etc/passwd from > /bin/sh to /bin/bash. Stupid me. Either bash is not > in /bin or it just won't work. The result is that I > cannot log in. How can I either reboot off of a > floppy and edit passwd to take out the offensive "ba" > or use the command prompt that FreeBSD temporarily > gives me when booting up to do the same? > > Silly mistake on my part, I confess. 8-( ---end quoted text--- -- Christian Schreiber, Netrail Network Security Engineer - Ape will not kill Ape To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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