Re: Can't login to the system...!
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 04:56:35PM +0300, thanos trompoukis wrote: > Hi all, I am a noobie here. > I was in the system as root and I type this command: > chsh -s usr/local/bin/bash (without reason,by mistake) > when I reboot the system I give username & password and I see this: > > > login: usr/local/bin/bash: No such file or directory OK. The first thing I see is that bash is probably at /usr/local/bin/bash and not usr/local/bin/bash Note the missing leading '/' in your command and in the error message. The second thing I notice is that you are trying to change the shell for root, and that is generally unadvisable. Although it is possible and most things will have no problems, the times the problems will come up is when you need to boot to single user to fix some crash causing problem and you do not have the /usr/local/bin available to you. So, just leave root's shell as /bin/csh If you just have to work in a root level and use bash, then make another id that is root and makes its shell be bash. The toor account is available and can be used for that or, if you don't like that name, you can duplicate that line in the /etc/passwd file using vipw(8) and then edit the id to be something you like - such as Rthanos maybe - and also edit the login directory to be /root/Rthanos (or whatever you made that new id) (The prepended 'R' in the name reminds you it is a root account. Set a password for that account. Log in to that new root account directly if you are working on the console, or log in to your regular non-root account if you are working remotely and su to that new account instead of plain root. NOTE: One thing to be careful of: Since the UID of both accounts will be 0, when you use root to set the password, you must specifiy the account name (Rthanos) on the 'passwd' command or it will set the first root account it finds since it goes by UID and you would accidently reset the root password and not the Rthanos password. By the way, leave root as the first entry in the /etc/passwd file. Put your new one after toor if you don't use toor. jerry > > FreeBSD/i386 (leonidas.MSHOME) (ttyv0) > > login: > > But I can access the system as another user, and > when I type *su* I can login as root fine. > I have no idea what i've done. Give me your lights please. > > Thanx! > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Can't login to the system...!
Steve Bertrand wrote: > thanos trompoukis wrote: >> Hi all, I am a noobie here. >> I was in the system as root and I type this command: >> chsh -s usr/local/bin/bash (without reason,by mistake) > > Login as a different user, and "su" to root as you've stated you can do, > then: > > # chsh -s /bin/sh ...that's a typo that was to be "/bin/csh", which is the shell that I use... Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: Can't login to the system...!
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 04:56:35PM +0300, thanos trompoukis wrote: > Hi all, I am a noobie here. > I was in the system as root and I type this command: > chsh -s usr/local/bin/bash (without reason,by mistake) > when I reboot the system I give username & password and I see this: > > > login: usr/local/bin/bash: No such file or directory > > FreeBSD/i386 (leonidas.MSHOME) (ttyv0) > > login: > > But I can access the system as another user, and > when I type *su* I can login as root fine. > I have no idea what i've done. Give me your lights please. You mangled the path to bash in the chsh command - note the absense of a leading / Become root using su, then change your root shell back to /bin/tcsh: # chsh -s /bin/tcsh All should now be well. Dan -- Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ pgpB2GKHQLZTp.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Can't login to the system...!
thanos trompoukis wrote: > Hi all, I am a noobie here. > I was in the system as root and I type this command: > chsh -s usr/local/bin/bash (without reason,by mistake) Login as a different user, and "su" to root as you've stated you can do, then: # chsh -s /bin/sh Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: Can't login to the system...!
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:56:35 +0300, thanos trompoukis wrote: > Hi all, I am a noobie here. > I was in the system as root and I type this command: > chsh -s usr/local/bin/bash (without reason,by mistake) > when I reboot the system I give username & password and I see this: > > > login: usr/local/bin/bash: No such file or directory > > FreeBSD/i386 (leonidas.MSHOME) (ttyv0) > > login: > > But I can access the system as another user, and > when I type *su* I can login as root fine. > I have no idea what i've done. Give me your lights please. Just change back the shell to the standard dialog shell, which is the C shell /bin/csh. If you intendedly want to use a different shell when working as root, consider using the toor account and change the shell of toor. Do not change the shell of root. Login as any user. Then: % su root Password: # chsh ... change back to csh ... # exit % exit Now you can login as root again. Note that you missed the leading / in the BASH name, as the login message states: > login: usr/local/bin/bash: No such file or directory ^ The correct path is /usr/local/bin/bash. And you can use this path for toor, no problem at all. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Can't login to the system...!
Hi all, I am a noobie here. I was in the system as root and I type this command: chsh -s usr/local/bin/bash (without reason,by mistake) when I reboot the system I give username & password and I see this: login: usr/local/bin/bash: No such file or directory FreeBSD/i386 (leonidas.MSHOME) (ttyv0) login: But I can access the system as another user, and when I type *su* I can login as root fine. I have no idea what i've done. Give me your lights please. Thanx! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
