From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 17 10:54:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA23887 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 10:54:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gershwin.tera.com ([207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA23882 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 10:54:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tera.com) Received: from athena.tera.com (athena.tera.com [207.224.230.169]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA15369; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 10:54:04 -0800 (PST) From: Gary Kline Received: (from kline@localhost) by athena.tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA26531; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 10:53:50 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199811171853.KAA26531@athena.tera.com> Subject: Re: I can't believe I am soo stupid In-Reply-To: <615CAC0140CED111AF1500805FEDDB8A094AE8@ns.new-mediacom.co.uk> from Alex Knowles at "Nov 17, 98 06:40:09 pm" To: alex@targeting.co.uk (Alex Knowles) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 10:53:46 -0800 (PST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL23 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Alex Knowles: [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > 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 Shutdown and reboot the system. Bring it up in single-user mode by typing ``-b'' at the boot: prompt. There is a more detailed explaination in the Answerman column of Daemon News a month or so ago. gary kline. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message