pkg_delete bash, logged out by accident, can't ssh back in (not good)

[dweimer]

On 09/26/2014 4:14 pm, firmdog at gmail.com wrote:
> Oh boy. I have only 2 accounts on this box. Root and one other
> account. Both use bash as default.
> 
> I am completely locked out of this box on the command line?
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> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 5:01 PM,  <kpneal at pobox.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 04:51:32PM -0400, firmdog at gmail.com wrote:
>>> I did a pkg_delete of bash and was going to make install a new one
>>> from the port, due to shellshock. I logged out by accident, and when
>>> try to login via ssh, it won't take my password. I assume I can't
>>> login because the default shell is bash, which has been removed 
>>> right?
>> 
>> Sounds like it.
>> 
>>> Any ideas on how I can get into my remote freebsd box via ssh?
>> 
>> Use a different remote account with a different shell.
>> 
>>> Workarounds?
>> 
>> None.
>> --

You should be able to hard reboot, select single user mode option when 
booting then change the shell back to default for root.  Finish booting 
then re-install bash.

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Thanks,
    Dean E. Weimer
    http://www.dweimer.net/