From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 17 10:51:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA23426 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 10:51:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sbservices.com ([207.51.66.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA23420 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 10:51:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ChrisMic@sbservices.com) Received: from thoth.sbservices.com (root@thoth.sbservices.com [199.174.17.20]) by sbservices.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id NAA11867; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 13:52:58 -0500 (EST) Received: from site2s1.sbservices.com (site2.sbservices.com [169.2.160.40]) by thoth.sbservices.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA24590; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 13:48:03 -0500 (EST) Received: by site2s1 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) id ; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 13:50:40 -0500 Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB441A5CCB@site2s1> From: Christopher Michaels - SSG To: "'Alex Knowles'" , "Questions (E-mail)" Subject: RE: I can't believe I am soo stupid Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 13:50:33 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Boot up the machine single user ( -s at the boot up prompt ) It will ask for the shell to use [/bin/sh] once in there, edit the passwd file and fix the path for the root shell. > -----Original Message----- > From: Alex Knowles [SMTP:alex@targeting.co.uk] > Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 1998 1:40 PM > To: Questions (E-mail) > Subject: I can't believe I am soo stupid > > doh, > I have just locked myself out of my bsd 3 box > I tried to change the shell that root uses by editing the passwd file and > put in > /usr/bin/tcsh > When i try and log in as root it says that it can't find bin/tcsh > and dumps me back to a login prompt > Please help (preferably kindly!) > thanks alot > Mr Stupid > (alex) > > 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