Re: ROOT created chaos !
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Bal K. Paudyal wrote:
: Hello Friends,
:
: As root, I typed the following:
:
: "chsh /bin/usr/tcsh" when I meant "chsh /usr/bin/tcsh".
:
: I just wanted to change the shell. But now because that shell file does not
: exist, the system does not allow me to log in as root. I tried to log as su
: but it does not work! There must be some way to change the things back!
As your non-root user, type
su -s /bin/sh -c /usr/bin/chsh
You will be prompted for the root passwd, and then the chsh command will
run.
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