Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 13:55:16 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: "Maksim Stolyarov" <mns@lpi.ac.ru> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help! Problem with root shell :( Message-ID: <199512282155.NAA00706@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 28 Dec 95 11:19:45 %2B0300." <AGXCbume18@td.lpi.ac.ru>
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> 2. Alarm! (or BEDA! in Russian :) Please help! > Situation: > > Accidentally I've changed root shell to *non-existent* one. > vipw honestly warned about it. I stupidly missed the event. > Evidently I can not login neither as root nor as su now. > I rebooted the box into single mode (boot -s) in oder to > correct my mistake with vipw. BUT > > In single mode / is mounted in my system as readonly! And > I can do nothing with ``writable tools'' like vipw. > > Ideas? What should I change for mounting / as RW in single mode? Do a "mount -u /" and "TERM=cons25; export TERM". You should then be able to use vipw. -DG
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