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To: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com>
CC: Alex Knowles <alex@targeting.co.uk>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: I can't believe I am soo stupid
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Gary Kline wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
It's "-s" I think, not "-b".
Also, to edit the password file, I think you need to run "vipw".
-- 
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