A problem with editors and shells

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imp

I ran the chsh command as root to change the shell and editor for root. i then made a stupid mistake and replace my shell with the editor i wanted and the editor with the shell so now whenever i login as root it starts emacs. i realize that this is a stupid mistake. now i need to know where the file with the shell and editor information is. because i should be able to simply edit the file with the root power emacs i have open but i have no idea where it is. thanks in advance for helping me with my stupid blunder
 
imp said:
I ran the chsh command as root to change the shell and editor for root.
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Do NOT change root's shell!

i then made a stupid mistake and replace my shell with the editor i wanted and the editor with the shell so now whenever i login as root it starts emacs. i realize that this is a stupid mistake. now i need to know where the file with the shell and editor information is. because i should be able to simply edit the file with the root power emacs i have open but i have no idea where it is. thanks in advance for helping me with my stupid blunder
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I don't use emacs that often but I'm sure emacs can spawn a shell. Use that shell to change root's shell back to /bin/csh. If that fails, boot to single user mode to change the shell.

The 'editor' being used is just an environment variable (EDITOR). Change it in ~/.cshrc.
 
Yes i realized my mistake in changing the shell after looking more into it and was in the middle of changing it back. It would appear that in changing the shell i changed what emacs accesses so it can no longer open a shell that operates properly. it would seem that i need a crash course in SUM. Thank you for all your help.
 
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