pkg_delete bash, logged out by accident, can't ssh back in (not good)

[Valeri Galtsev]

On Fri, September 26, 2014 4:14 pm, firmdog at gmail.com wrote:
> Oh boy. I have only 2 accounts on this box. Root and one other
> account. Both use bash as default.
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> I am completely locked out of this box on the command line?
>

One thing I would try is

ssh user at box.org exec /bin/sh

replace with your username and machine name. I am on the road with little
ability to test it, so my apology about my stupidity (as it likely will
try to invoke default shell first to then execute what exec requests...)

Valeri

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> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 5:01 PM,  <kpneal at pobox.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 04:51:32PM -0400, firmdog at gmail.com wrote:
>>> I did a pkg_delete of bash and was going to make install a new one
>>> from the port, due to shellshock. I logged out by accident, and when
>>> try to login via ssh, it won't take my password. I assume I can't
>>> login because the default shell is bash, which has been removed right?
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>> Sounds like it.
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>>> Any ideas on how I can get into my remote freebsd box via ssh?
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>> Use a different remote account with a different shell.
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>>> Workarounds?
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>> None.
>> --
>> Kevin P. Neal                                http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/
>>
>>  "Good grief, I've just noticed I've typed in a rant. Sorry chaps!"
>>                             Keir Finlow Bates, circa 1998
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Valeri Galtsev
Sr System Administrator
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
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