From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 29 9:29:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from adrastea.arcticbears.com (arcticbears.com [64.180.110.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DD1FA37B419 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 09:29:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 25510 invoked by uid 502); 29 Apr 2002 16:29:46 -0000 Message-ID: <20020429162946.25509.qmail@adrastea.arcticbears.com> From: "Joe Sotham" To: "FreeBSD Mailing List" Subject: locked myself out of my FreeBSD 4.5 server Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 09:29:46 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1" 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 Ooops, I forgot to install .../ports/.../bash2 before changing the login shell for root and my user id. . STUPID,STUPID, STUPID! BAD DOG! Now when I try to log in at the console I get ...no valid shell message and booted off the system I've tried booting to single user mode and fixing the passwd file...I get / mounted ro. I don't have disk #2. I am not sure what the next step is. Joe ----------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message