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From: izzy@izzy.com (Michael Israeli)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 'su' in FreeBSD sucks!!!
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 08:32:11 +0100
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In article <4kdduc$3bb@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, h-park7@ehsn12.cen.uiuc.edu
(Hee-Joon Park) wrote:

>I can't log in as root anymore!
>even though I provide right passwd, i've been kicked out
>BSD saying it can't find such shell(yea yea... I now know
>tcsh isn't located in /bin/!)

Boot your system with a floppy and then edit the /etc/passwd file and
change shell for root back to a shell which exists.

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Michael Israeli  -  izzy@bryn-mawr.pa.us