From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 17 11:58:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA03454 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 11:58:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.new-mediacom.co.uk (ns.new-mediacom.co.uk [193.192.221.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA03449 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 11:58:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alex@targeting.co.uk) Received: by ns.new-mediacom.co.uk with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1459.74) id ; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 19:52:30 -0000 Message-ID: <615CAC0140CED111AF1500805FEDDB8A094AEA@ns.new-mediacom.co.uk> From: Alex Knowles To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: I can't believe I am soo stupid Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 19:52:29 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1459.74) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks alot for all this, and I've tried to edit the passwd file, however the / partition is mounted read-only, a dodgy friend of mine is sending me a low level editor we'll see -----Original Message----- From: Malartre [mailto:malartre@aei.ca] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 1998 7:52 PM To: Gary Kline Cc: Alex Knowles; questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I can't believe I am soo stupid 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". -- [Malartre][malartre@aei.ca][http://www.lowrent.org/freebsd/malartre/] 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