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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!mozz.unh.edu!toto.plymouth.edu!oz.plymouth.edu!not-for-mail From: ted@oz.plymouth.edu (Ted Wisniewski) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: HELP!!!...trashed root!! Date: 4 Jan 1996 17:58:33 -0500 Organization: Plymouth State College - Plymouth, NH. Lines: 14 Message-ID: <4chm2p$54j@oz.plymouth.edu> References: <DKn0xF.3KD@news2.new-york.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: oz.plymouth.edu In article <DKn0xF.3KD@news2.new-york.net> le@put.com (Louis Epstein) writes: >I absent-mindedly cshsh'ed the database for root on my accounts to a shell >that wasn't on the machine... Boot Single user... "-s" at the freebsd boot prompt. mount the root partition as writable "mount -u /" and mount /usr You may need to fsck the device before mounting it. and then do the chsh or vipw to change it back. | Ted Wisniewski INET: ted@oz.plymouth.edu | | Computer Services ted@wiz.plymouth.edu | | Plymouth State College tedw@psc.plymouth.edu | | Plymouth NH, 03264 HTTP: http://oz.plymouth.edu/~ted/ |