From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 26 9: 9:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from megamail.megared.net.mx (www.megacable.com.mx [207.249.163.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3ED8B14F3A for ; Wed, 26 May 1999 09:09:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Received: from [207.249.163.249] by megamail.megared.net.mx (NTMail 3.03.0017/4c.ab3r) with ESMTP id sa245562 for ; Wed, 26 May 1999 11:06:56 -0500 Message-ID: <01ae01bea791$d973e420$f9a3f9cf@megared.net.mx> From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Alejandro_Ram=EDrez?= To: ". ." , References: <19990526160034.39939.qmail@hotmail.com> Subject: RE: Need help with Root shell? Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 11:07:27 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Completing... Change root passwd and change anything in the /etc/passwd file, you may use vipw, or rebuild the paswd by hand Ales ----- Original Message ----- From: . . To: Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 1999 11:00 AM Subject: Need help with Root shell? > Please Help. > I dont know what I did, my BSD box has not been rebooted in a while so it > could have been anything in the past few weeks! The last thing I was doing > was adding users. But now I can not log in as root! I get an error > "login: /bin/bash [-login]: no such file or directory > > I have no idea how that [-login] got in there but I suspect that has > something to do with it. .I tried to remove it from /etc/passwd but ofcourse > I have to be SU to do that and I can not SU for the same reason I can not > get root. > > Obviously I am fairly new at this... but any help would be appreciated! > thanks in advance > > corinthian420@hotmail.com > > > _______________________________________________________________ > Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message