From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 16 03:15:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA29805 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 03:15:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from student.uq.edu.au (root@student.uq.edu.au [130.102.2.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA29788 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 03:14:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from s334761@student.uq.edu.au) Received: from student.uq.edu.au (s334761.student.uq.edu.au [172.20.7.28]) by student.uq.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA18579 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 20:14:51 +1000 (GMT+1000) Message-ID: <3535D946.751A8624@student.uq.edu.au> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 20:11:18 +1000 From: Stuart Clarke X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: shell. URGENT URGENT URGENT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Allright boys and girls, here's a doozy: I was logged in as root, and was playing around (using chpass) with what shell I was using. I accidentally typed in the wrong path to a shell and now I can't login as root any more (it says that it can't find the shell, and returns to the login prompt). I've only created one other user since installing BSD, and it doesn't have any privelages to speak of. How the hell can I get to log in as root again? If I could only get to the /etc/passwd file! Please help me with this, 'cause it's rather urgent (assignments to do) Thanks to anyone who can help, Stu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message