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Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 08:18:37 -0700
From: "Brian O'Shea" <boshea@ricochet.net>
To: "Eric S . Van Gyzen" <lists@vangyzen.net>
Cc: Ahmed Aden <adenbros@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG,
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Subject: Re: wrong root shell kicks me out when I login
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On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 10:25:56AM -0400, Eric S . Van Gyzen wrote:
> 
> Boot into single-user mode and do this to mount the filesystem read-write:
> 	# mount -o rw /
> Actually, just this may work:
> 	# mount /

You'll want to specify the -u flag to mount, which indecates that the
mount options of an already mounted filesystem should be changed.

	(in single-user mode)
	# mount -u /

Then mount /usr and /var :

	# mount /usr
	# mount /var

Then use vipw to edit the password file, correcting the path for root's
login shell.

Good luck,
-brian

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