changed shell to tcsh, now can't login

[Gilles Gravier]

Try booting the installation CD... then mounting your hard disk.

Then edit the /etc/passwd of your hard disk... The last field of this 
file is your shell... replace with /bin/bash and reboot ...

You might just have made a typo... tcsh is /usr/bin/tcsh ... This means 
that /etc/passwd needs to contain /usr/bin/tcsh at the end of the 
line... not just tcsh ...

Gilles.



Jay Lieurance wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I changed my shell to tcsh on my ubuntu 7.04 server. I logged out and 
> when I logged back in, it said it can't find the file. Since that is 
> the only account, what do I do, reload?
>
> Thanks.
> J
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