From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 20 22: 3:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-1.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AAF437B424 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 22:03:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@tumbolia.com) Received: from shell-3.enteract.com (shell-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.42]) by smtp-1.enteract.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B57BC7D72; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 00:03:29 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 00:03:29 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt X-Sender: dscheidt@shell-3.enteract.com To: JannaDanRich Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please Help .. moron at wheel .. oops no, don't even have that acct In-Reply-To: <05fb01c0ca1d$23d6b5b0$1616160a@neoone> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, JannaDanRich wrote: :ok, only one user configured, changing shell :and I didn't double check my typing .. I have no :shell for my root user now.. how do I get in to effect :changes to passwd? CTRL-ALT-DELETE should reboot the machine cleanly. When you get the "Booting kernel in 10 seconds, press any key..." prompt, press a key. Type boot -s, which will boot you single user mode. It will prompt you for a shell, press return. Do this: # fsck # mount -a # vipw (and fix your shell problem. ) # exit (and the machine will boot multi-user David -- dscheidt@tumbolia.com Bipedalism is only a fad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message