From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 30 8:27:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.184.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43B8437B401 for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 08:27:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lowell@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f6UFRrZ04465; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 11:27:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lowell) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Oops! References: From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 30 Jul 2001 11:27:53 -0400 In-Reply-To: RPH@henrob.co.uk's message of "30 Jul 2001 15:27:49 +0200" Message-ID: <44elqymo7a.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Lines: 22 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 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 RPH@henrob.co.uk (Hemsley, Robin) writes: > I don't know if this is the appropriate address to send this problem to but > here goes... Yep. But Reading the Fine Manual first is the recommended procedure for getting help from this list. > I am new to unix and foolishly changed the root accounts shell to a > non-existant one (/bin/bash). Dead, dead clever - I know! So the problem now > is that I can't login as root nor SU to root and therefore can't change my > shell back. Common problem. People ask about it all the time. That's why it's in the Frequently Asked Questions list. > Is there a (relatively) simple way to change back to a shell which actually > exists...? Certainly. "I made a mistake in rc.conf, or another startup file, and now I cannot edit it because the filesystem is read-only. What should I do?" http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#RCCONF-READONLY To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message