From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 21 5:11:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DF5237B422 for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 05:11:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([fec0::2e0:7dff:fe81:749d] ident=root) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14qw0h-000Ll4-00; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 12:57:07 +0100 Received: (from ben@localhost) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f3LBv7107909; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 12:57:07 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from ben) Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 12:57:07 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: JannaDanRich Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please Help .. moron at wheel .. oops no, don't even have that acct Message-ID: <20010421125706.A42151@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <05fb01c0ca1d$23d6b5b0$1616160a@neoone> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <05fb01c0ca1d$23d6b5b0$1616160a@neoone> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? Reboot into single user mode. See the FAQ entry about forgetting the root password in the System Administration section, the problem is similar. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message