Get access to csh (default freebsd shell) for root to solve login problem.

[Lowell Gilbert]

Luca Renaud <renaud.luca at gmail.com> writes:

> The root shell is now bash,but I was unaware that bash was not
> self-contained(it depends at least of libintl.so.8),
> and doing some upgrades with ports I erased libintl.so.8,now I cannot access
> the root account because bash is
> not operational and I need root access to install again libintl.so.8,or any
> other way to solve the problem.
> So,how can I get access to csh for root without having access to a root
> shell(the previously defined bash does
> not work,and I need root access to change the shell for the root acount).

This will work:  just change the root shell instead of password.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#FORGOT-ROOT-PW