Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 15:58:44 +0100 (WET DST) From: griessl <werner@btp1x5.phy.uni-bayreuth.de> To: freyes@i-2000.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: root shell problem (fwd) Message-ID: <9508151458.AA19074@btp1x5>
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Forwarded message: >From werner Tue Aug 15 15:57:26 1995 From: griessl <werner> Message-Id: <9508151457.AA18885@btp1x5> Subject: Re: root shell problem To: werner@btp1x5.phy.uni-bayreuth.de (griessl) Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 15:57:26 +0100 (WET DST) In-Reply-To: <9508151430.AA14390@btp1x5> from "griessl" at Aug 15, 95 03:30:06 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 487 > > > > > I was attempting to change my shell for the roo to bash. I left > > out the initial '/' so I wrote usr/.... instead of /usr.... > > > > How can I fix this? I can not log in as root. Is there a way to log > > in an indicate a shell at the same time? > > > Boot your system with -s on the boot prompt (single user) I forgot: Do a "mount -u /" here to make the root-partition writable Werner > and mount manually the /usr-partition. > Then try vipw ! > > Werner > >
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