Error in Terminal (Can't log in as super-user anymore)

Hiya,

I have an interesting error on my Intel Macbook (running leopard). I was trying to remotely access a CVS repository and in the process of doing so I changed my default shell from sh to tcsh (I think I was in super-user mode when i did this).

Anyway, when I try to go su now, I get the following error:


The command I used before was

have you tried sudo??

If you still need super user try this:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=377802

typing in sudo -i automatically makes me root, but just typing in su, signals me for my password, and once I correctly type it in, I get the error that I mentioned in my first post.

I restarted my computer and now I'm getting this error...

So, do you think if I bring back terminal.app from my time machine backup will result in a quickfix?

The problem is not the terminal application. You have altered your user configuration. I am not using leopard, so I don't know if the default shell is bash of not.

You can try

sudo chsh -s "shell you want" "user name"

Whereas "shell name" is the shell you want to use and "user name" is the name of the user account you are making this change to. Hopefully this will fix things.

You can also look at the man page for chsh.

man chsh

so if I login as root and do the above-mentioned command, that should work?

ok that didn't work. I tried both sh and bash as my command.
(thanks for the help though)
bah, what now ?

I'm now able to use terminal again, but I still can't login as a super user. I still get the same error. For the shell I want, I kept forgetting to write the full path...I was using sh instead of /bin/sh

I restarted terminal and tried going su again, and I still get the directory not found error.

suing by itself will not work unless you enabled the root account. Which is disable by default. What is it that are trying to do, that need constant root access?

I don't need it very often, but I do need it every now and then. I'm just unnerved that I can't su the way i used to anymore.


^---This is what happens when I try to su
Yes my computer is named Lovemaker.

ok I fixed it!

So what I did was chsh my account and the root account to the same shell, sh, instead of having one on tcsh and the other one on sh.

Thanks for your help!