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Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 08:17:21 -0400
To: Bud Roth <bud_roth@yahoo.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
From: Jason Stewart <jstewart@rtl.org>
Subject: Re: hacked /etc/passwd and can't reboot
Cc: Gary Nye <gary@consys.com>
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If you installed bash from the ports collection, it would be in 
/usr/local/bin/bash.

Good Luck,
Jason Stewart

At 02:20 PM 6/5/2001 -0700, Bud Roth wrote:
>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-(
>
>Any help would be most appreciated.
>
>Bud
>
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