From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 28 00:36:45 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA21869 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 Dec 1995 00:36:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from aleph.lpi.ac.ru (aleph.lpi.ac.ru [147.45.17.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA21860 for ; Thu, 28 Dec 1995 00:36:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from td.lpi.ac.ru by aleph.lpi.ac.ru with ESMTP id KAA01562; (8.6.8/D) Thu, 28 Dec 1995 10:58:44 +0300 Received: by td.lpi.ac.ru id LAA02079; (8.6.11/D) Thu, 28 Dec 1995 11:19:45 +0300 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: Organization: Department of Theoretical Physics. Lebedev Physical Institute. From: "Maksim Stolyarov" Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 11:19:45 +0300 (MSK) X-Mailer: Mail/@ [v2.40 FreeBSD] Subject: Help! Problem with root shell :( Lines: 35 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Dear Folks! 1. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to Everybody! 2. Alarm! (or BEDA! in Russian :) Please help! Situation: Accidentally I've changed root shell to *non-existent* one. vipw honestly warned about it. I stupidly missed the event. Evidently I can not login neither as root nor as su now. I rebooted the box into single mode (boot -s) in oder to correct my mistake with vipw. BUT In single mode / is mounted in my system as readonly! And I can do nothing with ``writable tools'' like vipw. Ideas? What should I change for mounting / as RW in single mode? Please send mail to mns@lpi.ac.ru because I can not even start my home uucp to get mails (including FBSD ones) from my Institute :( Specifics: FreeBSD 2.1 (great System, really) Thank you in advance, best wishes, Maksim. --- Maksim N. Stolyarov -> mns@lpi.ac.ru <- Department of Theoretical Physics, Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS Leninskii 53, 117924, Moscow, Russia fax: +7(95)135-8533, tel: +7(95)132-6024