Re: changing root shell

[Anish Muttreja <muttreja@Princeton.EDU>]

Thanks , I fixed it. Found aptitude going on, that I had forgot about 
,aptitude must have been started pre-disaster, from a root shell , so...  
. Thanks to everyody who took the time to read it.
Anish
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 18:53:35 +0100, François TOURDE 
<fra-dl-no-spam@tourde.org> wrote:

> Le 12353ième jour après Epoch,
> Anish Muttreja écrivait:
>
> > Hi everybody
> > I did something very silly on mu laptop. I manged to set the root
> > shell to an incorrect value.
> > Now I can't login as root. I know idiots like me should never be root
> > and the world is probably  a better place this way , but then neither
> > can  anybody else :-D.
> > Short of booting the laptop with a knoppix cd and correcting 
> > /etc/passwd,
> > Is there any other hope ? Basically is there a way to overwrite
> > /etc/passwd.
> > I tried su --shell=/bin/bash .That says No shell and exits.
> > I will really appreciate all suggestions.
>
> Try to boot in single user mode, then edit /etc/passwd or /etc/shells ...