Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 09:18:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> To: James Wyatt <jwyatt@rwsystems.net> Cc: jahanur <jahanur@jjsoft.com>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root access problem please help. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910260904370.9101-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910252255560.2323-100000@bsdie.rwsystems.net>
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Why not boot stand alone (with -s) and when it says enter shell or press enter enter /bin/sh and then enter On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, James Wyatt wrote: > On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, jahanur wrote: > > HI, everybody, > > I have got a major problem. > > Whenever I try to login as root it says "su: /bin/bash: No such file or > > directory". > > After a lot investgation I found out that the other administrator was > > trying to change shell for some user. He is not shure what he did, but he > > ran the "chsh" command while he was root and probably changed the shell > > for the root. > > > > I have tried copying the "bash" in /bin directory by using "su root -c "cp > > bash /bin" from /usr/local/bin/ directory. > > I dont know what else I could do. > > Please help. > > > > Jahanur > > If I understand, can't you just do something like: > > su root -c "chsh" > > It's times like this I appreciate sudo... - Jy@ > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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