From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 29 22:42:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pokey.local.net (tcs4-49.arl.netwalk.net [216.69.200.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C1141537C for ; Sat, 29 May 1999 22:42:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmutter@netwalk.com) Received: from insomnia.local.net (insomnia.local.net [192.168.2.3]) by pokey.local.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id BAA06442; Sun, 30 May 1999 01:42:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jmutter@insomnia.local.net) Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 01:45:41 -0400 (EDT) From: "James A. Mutter" Reply-To: jmutter@netwalk.com To: Roy Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: shell change In-Reply-To: <3750AD1D.DD35A5E4@yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG And people say it's OK to change root's shell. :) If you can log in as your regular user do this: su -c /bin/sh chsh change your shell back to /bin/sh or /bin/csh. If you can't log in, or can't su (Because you aren't in the wheel group), boot into single user mode and change your shell back to /bin/sh or /bin/csh. Good luck. :) On Sun, 30 May 1999, Roy wrote: : : :hi, : : Im running a freebsd 3.1 and i tried experimenting and changed the root :shell to tcsh from csh and now i cant log in as root, Is their a way t :orecover the shell and recover my root? can anybody please tell me i :need my root badly.. : :roy : : :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