From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 20 17: 2: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAB0537B401 for ; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 17:01:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mf1.bredband.net (pop01.lab.bredband.com [195.54.122.119]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2319043E58 for ; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 17:01:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from orbb@bredband.net) Received: from localhost ([213.113.124.55]) by mf1.bredband.net with SMTP id <20020721000153.MIFV312.mf1@localhost>; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 02:01:53 +0200 Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 02:02:02 +0200 From: Simon Sandlund To: Thomas Connolly Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wheel ? Message-Id: <20020721020202.541bdea3.orbb@bredband.net> In-Reply-To: <71ED4DBF1EA19A45A3765CA9548BE30A212D@server1.electrosoftsolutions.com> References: <71ED4DBF1EA19A45A3765CA9548BE30A212D@server1.electrosoftsolutions.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.8claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 20 Jul 2002 17:36:14 -0600 Thomas Connolly wrote: > > Ok now I've really screwed things up. I did what you said, entered /bin/csh > into the password file only, I spelled csh as xsh and now I can't even > login as root. I get an error that says the same things as before "/bin/xsh" > directory or file does not exist. Is there anything I can do now? Help > please? > > Thank you, > Tom You can start up single user mode. When you start up your computer it says "press any key to get a command line" or something similiar. Do that and type "boot -s", that will give a a /bin/sh shell and a possibility to fix your mistake. Then type "exit" to continue the boot process. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message