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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!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!informatik.tu-muenchen.de!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can't login as root What to do? Date: 14 Oct 1996 19:15:33 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <53u3gl$6kn@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <53sno9$1392@news3.realtime.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E tushar@ecpi.com (Tushar Patel) wrote: > I did "1,$ s/\bin/\bash/\/usr\/local/\bin/\bash/g" > > 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 Boot single-user (-s at the boot prompt). When the system comes up, it will ask you for a shell, and offer `sh' as the default. You can accept it (or if you've even hosed this copy of the shell, you can type /bin/csh there). Then, remount your file systems r/w, and run vipw. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j