su: bashlia: No such file or directory

Question

[user@freebsd ~]$ su root 
Password: 
su: bashlia: No such file or directory

How come i cannot switch user to root account?

Answer 1

Looks like it isn't finding the shell you use called "bashlia". Maybe one of the following will work for you:

sudo su

or

su - root

or

sudo -u root /bin/bash