Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 16:49:09 +1000 (EST) From: "Michael Henry" <mhenry@pgrad.cs.usyd.edu.au> To: veenoghu@uvic.ca Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Locking myself out of Root @ Wheel Message-ID: <19990920064919.9865B156AD@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <NDBBILDCDHKKMPLMPMKBKEFLEBAA.veenoghu@uvic.ca> from "Morgan Stewart" at Sep 19, 99 10:39:30 pm
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CC'd to -questions. Please post follow-ups there. > I have locked myself out of the root user account. Impossible. > Using a basic search & replace function on the master.passwd file I renamed the > shell in use by root (and nearly all other users), from /bin/sh to /bin/csh I won't ask. > The user I added immediately after making this change still works, all of the > other users don't. I would help if you included /etc/passwd in your post. (Or you could include /etc/master.passwd so we could try to crack your passwords :) ). > When doing this I'm greeted with the following error right as the shell should > start: > > : No such file or directory > > The server is still operational and working just fine without me. But, I will > eventually need to have access to it again. Single user mode was designed for contingencies such as this. Type "boot -s" at the boot: prompt. > I need a suggestion for how I override either the default shell or otherwise > gain access to the file system in order to restore the backed up master.passwd > file. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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