Re: ROOT created chaos !
Bal K. Paudyal:
> 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!
sulogin takes the shell to use from the environment variable SULOGIN, if it
exists (otherwise it uses /etc/passwd)
So "setenv SULOGIN /usr/bin/tcsh; sulogin" should give you a root shell
Jiri
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