In article <yuan1.742445034@husc.harvard.edu> yuan1@husc7.harvard.edu (Nina Yuan) writes:
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>I have an embarrassing question; I just set up SLS 1.02 Linux on my
>486, and everything was fine until I logged in as root.  The second
>thing I did as root (after running passwd) was to change the shell to
>tcsh, stupidly before checking to see if it was available.  It's not.
>Now I can't log in as root; it says "can't find shell" and dumps me
>back to the login prompt.  I also don't have any other accounts yet.
>
>Is there anything I can do to fix this short of reinstalling Linux?
>I tried booting from a1 and mounting hda2 (where Linux resides) but
>it says that it can't mount the second extended file system.  I also
>can't run chsh this way.
>
>(And yes, I did read the FAQ lists, as well as O'Reilly's "Essential
>System Administration" and didn't find anything helpful.)
>
>Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
>-nhy
>
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>Nina H. Yuan                          William James Hall Computer Services
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>yuan1@husc.harvard.edu                yuan@isr.harvard.edu

I did the same thing the other day.  You need to boot off your A1 disk and then
mount /dev/hda1  at /root.  This will then allow you to cd to /root/etc where 
you can change your password by running passwd.

Good luck,
Ron Morley
Zenith Data Systems

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