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[Moti Levy]

Jonathan Chen wrote:

>On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 08:54:45AM -0500, Mike J wrote:
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>>I have a question.  One of the new guys went into one of our BSD servers and
>>changed the root environment from the default to /bin/bash and bash isn't
>>installed on this box, therefore we are having trouble su'ing in and even
>>logging in at the console.  Anyone have any ideas on how to get in.
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>Boot into single user (just hit the reset button when all is quite and
>hit the space bar during the appropriate boot-prompt), and it will
>allow you to specify the shell to use in single user mode (/bin/sh by
>default).
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>    # fsck -y
>    # mount -a
>    # vipw
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>should do the trick.
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if u have a user that is a memeber of the wheel group you can try and  
copy bash to /bin