Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 15:10:54 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Newell <mnewell@newell.arlington.va.us> To: Alex Knowles <alex@targeting.co.uk> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: I can't believe I am soo stupid Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981117151019.22592A-100000@bigpuppy.newell.arlington.va.us> In-Reply-To: <615CAC0140CED111AF1500805FEDDB8A094AEA@ns.new-mediacom.co.uk>
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You can always do "mount /" to fix that. You'll also need to mount /usr too so you can get to the admin tools. Mike On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Alex Knowles wrote: alex> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 19:52:29 -0000 alex> From: Alex Knowles <alex@targeting.co.uk> alex> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG alex> Subject: RE: I can't believe I am soo stupid alex> alex> Thanks alot for all this, and I've tried to edit the passwd file, however alex> the / partition is mounted read-only, a dodgy friend of mine is sending me a alex> low level editor alex> we'll see alex> alex> -----Original Message----- alex> From: Malartre [mailto:malartre@aei.ca] alex> Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 1998 7:52 PM alex> To: Gary Kline alex> Cc: Alex Knowles; questions@FreeBSD.ORG alex> Subject: Re: I can't believe I am soo stupid alex> alex> alex> Gary Kline wrote: alex> > alex> > According to Alex Knowles: alex> > [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] alex> > > doh, alex> > > I have just locked myself out of my bsd 3 box alex> > > I tried to change the shell that root uses by editing the passwd file alex> and alex> > > put in alex> > > /usr/bin/tcsh alex> > > When i try and log in as root it says that it can't find bin/tcsh alex> > > and dumps me back to a login prompt alex> > > Please help (preferably kindly!) alex> > > thanks alot alex> > alex> > alex> > Shutdown and reboot the system. Bring it up in single-user alex> > mode by typing ``-b'' at the alex> > alex> > boot: alex> > alex> > prompt. alex> > alex> > There is a more detailed explaination in the Answerman column alex> > of Daemon News a month or so ago. alex> > alex> > gary kline. alex> > alex> It's "-s" I think, not "-b". alex> Also, to edit the password file, I think you need to run "vipw". alex> -- alex> [Malartre][malartre@aei.ca][http://www.lowrent.org/freebsd/malartre/] alex> alex> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org alex> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message alex> alex> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org alex> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message alex> Much obliged, Mike +--------------------------------------+------------------------------------+ | Mike Newell | The opinions expressed herein | | Affiliation: | are mine. You can take them or | | Address: | leave them. Flames to /dev/null. | +--------------------------------------+------------------------------------+ | Mike@Newell.arlington.va.us | http://www.newell.arlington.va.us | +--------------------------------------+------------------------------------+ | "Peace. It's wonderful!" Father Divine. | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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