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. > > > > > > > > >--------------------------------- > > >Sneak preview the all-new Yahoo.com. It's not radically > > different. Just radically better. > > >_______________________________________________ > > >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > >To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > > > > > > > su root -c chsh root > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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