I just made a bit of a mistake:
- Fresh install of FreeBSD 8.2
- logged in as root
- installed bash from ports
- created users, setting bash as shell
vipw
(edit passwd file)- changed root's shell from
/bin/csh
to/bin/bash
- logged out
- log in as root
- WRONG!!
As you probably guessed, bash shell is not placed in /bin 🙁 Pretty dumb mistake!
Now I can't login as root.
I can login as my wheel user, but can't vipw
.
Tried the following without luck:
- Reboot to single user,
/rescue/vi /etc/passwd
- Login as wheel user,
su -m
So how do i change the root shell back to /bin/csh
?
I could just re-install – but i'd rather learn some new stuff!
Best Answer
Boot into single user mode and then:
Change path to
/usr/local/bin/bash