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Steven Allen (sallen@csc.com) wrote:

: 	Boy did I really hose up this time.  Just finished installing
: A D N and X via floppy.  Then I logged in and changed roots shell
: from BASH to CSH...only I miss typed something in the /etc/passwd file.
: Since there are no other users on the system, it seems that I can't get
: back in the system since that shell doesn't exist.  There are no other 
: users and I cant log on as root. 

: 	So, the question is....How do I get back into the system?
: is there some sort of single user mode that I dont know about?

I don't know if the single user mode is dependent upon having a proper
shell defined for root in /etc/passwd.  But you can boot single-user
from LILO by typing the name of your kernel followed by the word
single.  Assuming your normal kernel is named "linux", you'd type
"linux single" at the LILO prompt.

If this doesn't work, you'll need to get out those boot floppies,
mount root and then fix the passwd file that way.
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