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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newspump.sol.net!posts.execpc.com!usenet From: desmo@bandwidth.org (Kenneth J. Monville) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: root's default shell doesnt exist - what now? Date: 1 Jan 1997 13:07:54 GMT Organization: Exec-PC BBS Internet - Milwaukee, WI Lines: 14 Message-ID: <5adnja$n4t@newsops.execpc.com> References: <5ad2ut$ine@oxywhite.interaccess.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: wasted.bandwidth.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 To: ksquires@oxywhite.interaccess.com (Kent L Squires) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33416 [Posted and mailed] In article <5ad2ut$ine@oxywhite.interaccess.com>, ksquires@oxywhite.interaccess.com (Kent L Squires) writes: > Ok, I went to change the shell for root using chsh. > I typed in 'ksh' instead of 'zsh' and now I can't > login as root. Help. reboot '-s' at the boot prompt. This will boot you into single user mode and ask you for a shell. Next, mount -a to mount your filesystems, then you can change your shell back with chsh. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- |\ /| _ \ desmo@bandwidth.org | \/ | _ Ken |_ / http://www.bandwidth.org/~desmo | | (_) |\| \/ | |_ |_ |_ \ * Powered by FreeBSD *