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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newsrelay.netins.net!imci5!pull-feed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!ieunet!news.tcd.ie!csdalton From: csdalton@tcd.ie (Colin Dalton) Subject: Re: 'su' in FreeBSD sucks!!! Message-ID: <DpLDsD.4pv@news.tcd.ie> Sender: usenet@news.tcd.ie (TCD News System ) Organization: University of Dublin, Trinity College References: <4kdduc$3bb@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 11:12:12 GMT Lines: 15 In <4kdduc$3bb@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> h-park7@ehsn12.cen.uiuc.edu (Hee-Joon Park) writes: >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 into single-user mode (with -s at the Boot: prompt). Then mount / and /usr, then vipw. Fix your mistake and reboot. -- Colin Dalton Mail: csdalton@alf2.tcd.ie - Web: http://alf2.tcd.ie/~csdalton/ - IRC: csd Where mathematics are true, they do not refer to reality; where they refer to reality, they are not true. - Albert Einstein.