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[jabr at tarnhelm.blu.org (John Abreau)]

On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 wils743 at banet.net wrote:

> I hope you can free me from my stupidity.I have a problem.
> I was installing a compiler (Slackware dist.) as root while in the bash
> shell when I encountered a problem setting an enviromental variable.
> It turns out that I should have been in the C-shell. I went to change my
> shell from /bin/bash to /bin/csh and I typed /bin/chs and hit return.
> Now I am unable to login as root.
> Any suggestions ? Thanks, Bob
> 

I haven't tried Slackware in several years, so I can't give any Slackware-
specific advice. Basically you want to boot into a ramdisk, get to a
shell, and mount the hard drive partition that contains your root
filesystem as /mnt, then edit /mnt/etc/passwd .

I'd expect that Slackware comes with a rescue floppy. If it doesn't, there
are a number of floppy-only distributions that should do this.
I took a quick look on freshmeat.net and found the following floppy-based
distributions:

tomsrtbt - http://www.toms.net/rb/
Pocket Linux - http://pocket-linux.coven.vmh.net/
muLinux - http://www4.pisoft.it/~andreoli/mulinux.html
Linux On A Floppy (LOAF) - http://www.ecks.org/loaf/
Traveller's Linux - http://members.xoom.com/ror4/tlinux/
Linux Router Project (LRP) - http://www.linuxrouter.org/


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