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FreeBSD 4.11 root has no shell
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I miss typed the shell path. Now I can't log into root. How can I correct this?

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Try booting into single user mode (see the documentation on the FreeBSD website for this) and then type vipw and fix root's shell.
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When I boot into single user mode (boot-s) I don't have access to any (vi-ee) text editors.

Is a complete install the only solution?
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You'll need to mount /usr first, since vi is under /usr/bin. Try using mount -a to mount all the partitions from fstab. Then you can use vipw.
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that did it!

Thanks a ton....
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