cd-rom sysinstall fixit utility

[Ed Stover]

On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 13:05 -0400, Darrel wrote:
> Having mistyped changes with the 'pw' command, giving my User and Root a
> bad path to their shells might required a new installation.  I can not log
> in at all.
> 
> Is there actually a way to change the shell of root while logged in with
> the fixit utility on the cd-rom?

Just boot into single user mode, mount root, use vipw to fix the path,
and then reboot. done.

> 
> Darrel
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