From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 19 21:13:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA10135 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 21:13:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ix.netcom.com (sil-wa3-06.ix.netcom.com [206.214.137.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA10120 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 21:13:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tomdean@ix.netcom.com) Received: (from tomdean@localhost) by ix.netcom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) id VAA06746; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 21:12:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tomdean) Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 21:12:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199808200412.VAA06746@ix.netcom.com> From: Thomas Dean To: arkii@netnet.net CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199808200303.WAA19456@tigris.netnet.net> (arkii@netnet.net) Subject: Re: Can't get into my own system... Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The message is happening because someone has changed the root shell to 'nologin'. If you have access to a FreeBSD system, look at 'man 8 nologin'. What happens when you boot into single user mode? Reboot the machine. At the boot prompt, enter -s. This should put you into a mode that allows you to change the root shell. This is a sort of "root maintenance" mode. You will have to mount the root file system, 'mount -a' should work. '/usr/sbin/vipw' should allow you to change the root shell. Change the last field in the "root" line to be '/bin/csh'. Then, exit vipw (:x). After you get back to the prompt, 'exit' should allow the machine to continue into the multi-user mode. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message