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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!portc01.blue.aol.com!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!news.acsu.buffalo.edu!acsu.buffalo.edu!pleung From: pleung@cs.buffalo.edu (Patrick Leung) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can't login as root What to do? Date: 14 Oct 1996 09:20:10 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo Lines: 32 Message-ID: <53t0ka$o42@prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu> References: <53sno9$1392@news3.realtime.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: yeager.cs.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: pleung X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Tushar Patel (tushar@ecpi.com) wrote: : had on the old machine had "/bin/bash" entry in the password file. : I did some thing stupid. : I did "1,$ s/\bin/\bash/\/usr\/local/\bin/\bash/g" what in the world does that do ? ;-)) : And that fix all the users, but the root entry on the new machine : was "/usr/local/bin/bash" so when I used the above mentioned : it changed my root enrty to: : /usr/local/usr/local/bin/bash I guess that's when sometimes a little too much U*IX knowledge can be dangerous. : Any suggestion to solve this problem? Do I need to install all over again? : Can I use another disk to boot and then go to problem disk? It looks like to me you'll have to boot from floppy. You do have a rescue floppy at hand right? If you don't have one already, you can probably use the "fixit" disk that comes with the FreeBSD distribution Once you boot up with floppy, login as root without passwd, mount your harddrive partition under /mnt and do whatever fix you want Patrick Leung, pleung@cs.buffalo.edu "Pardon me, sir-- Which way to the Wizard of Oz?" "Just follow the information super-highway--"