[buug] Lost root access

[Michael Salmon]

Hi Skip,
    Basically you can hard reboot most *nix machines and pass parameters
to the kernel at startup to go into single user mode. In that mode, you can
do anything. 
    I seem to recall you using FreeBSD right? If so, at the kernel prompt
type "boot -s". If you're using linux, it's "init 1".
    
ms-

On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 05:27:14PM -0800, Skip Evans wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've really hosed myself this time.
> 
> Someone else installed bash on my machine, but it got installed
> in /usr/local/bin.
> 
> I assumed it had been put in /bin
> and did a chsh on root because I need to compile a port that requires
> root to be using the bash shell.
> 
> So when I did the chsh on root I gave it /bin/bash for the new shell.
> 
> Of course, you can guess what happens now. When I try and su
> to root, after entering the password, it says it can't find /bin/bash
> and then drops out.
> 
> I have no root access know. Anyone know how I can fix this???
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> Skip Evans
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> National Center for Science Education
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