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Date:      Thu, 18 May 2006 13:06:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:      unixforums 1 <unixforums@yahoo.com>
To:        Andy Greenwood <greenwood.andy@gmail.com>, Izwan Mohd <zuan@mylinux.net.my>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how to change roots shell
Message-ID:  <20060518200633.10058.qmail@web39110.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <3ee9ca710605181145h436bca27ib5fb8e26ac348daf@mail.gmail.com>

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It wont let me link it. Im going to see if I can walk a user at the site through single user mode.

Thanks for trying to help.
Thron

Andy Greenwood <greenwood.andy@gmail.com> wrote: can you not link /bin/sh to change?

On 5/18/06, Izwan Mohd  wrote:
> Hope you have "sudo" you can do "sudo -u root bash" if don't nothing
> came cross my mine yet how to deal with it :-\
>
> unixforums 1 wrote:
>
> > tried it and i get the following error:
> >
> > su: change: No such file or directory
> >
> > What happened originally is I accidently changed the shell to "change"
> > and now i get the following error when I su.
> >
> > su: change: No such file or directory
> >
> > This is a remote system so if at all possable i need to do it through ssh.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > */Izwan Mohd /* wrote:
> >
> >     unixforums 1 wrote:
> >
> >     >Hi,
> >     > I did a completely newbie move and changed the root�s shell to
> >     something that doesn�t work. So, needless to say now I can�t
> >     su to root or even login as root. Is there a way I can fix this
> >     without rebuilding the server?
> >     >
> >     > Thanks for any help you can provide.
> >     >
> >     >
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