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Date:      Tue, 8 Aug 2006 15:17:57 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Philip Hallstrom <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com>
To:        ross <ross.penner@gmail.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Changing root's shell
Message-ID:  <20060808151743.T11625@bravo.pjkh.com>
In-Reply-To: <op.tdzdwqn3w0tva9@ross.inet>
References:  <op.tdzdwqn3w0tva9@ross.inet>

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> so it seems changed root login's shell to /usr/bin/bash which doesn't exist. 
> now I can't login to root at all. Oh yes, sudo isn't installed. How would you 
> grand masters of FreeBSD fix my embarrasing mistake.

Boot into single user mode, then vipw the password file and change it 
back.



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