From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 3 17: 8:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from snowy.org (snowy.org [203.37.251.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED6EA37B503 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 17:08:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (snowy@localhost) by snowy.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e9408Rx63123; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 10:08:31 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from snowy@snowy.org) Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 10:08:27 +1000 (EST) From: Sleepless in Brisbane To: Loren Koss Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I deleted my shell by mistake!! In-Reply-To: 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 On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Loren Koss wrote: > So, I have a current connection that works, but now all new connections > are getting declined because somehow (i think it was when i re-cvsuped by > source) my /usr/local/bin/tcsh is gone.. so.. now i cant connect because > it says the file is gone.. The real stinker is that i made the root shell > TCSH as well.. Please tell me there is something I can do.. like somehow > executing a command like VI to edit the passwd file and change the shell > of this user and root.. Please tell me I aint screwed!!! As long as you have a root shell still open; you can use the command 'vipw' to change your /etc/passwd file. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message