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Subject: Re: I can't believe I am soo stupid
In-Reply-To: <3651D3E5.4BF43F7D@aei.ca> from Malartre at "Nov 17, 98 02:52:05 pm"
To: malartre@aei.ca (Malartre)
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 13:25:53 -0800 (PST)
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According to Malartre:
> 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".


	Hm, well I was _thinking_ -s!  THanks for catching this.
	Yes on vipw.  

	Also, if the system is just power-cycled the filesystems
	will not be marked clean and need to be fsck'd.  Then
	mounted. 

	gary



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