Re: I've hozed my root login.
>
> As root I ran chsh and accidentally entered an
> invalid shell path. chsh didn't detect this mistake
> like it does for a regular user!
> I wasn't aware of my blunder till next time I tried to
> login as root.
> I tried booting from the rescue floppy and then mounting
> my linux drive so that I might edit /etc/passwd but the
> mount did something weird, when I "cd /mnt/etc" there was
> nothing there, I mean the dir was empty, hence I couldn't
> edit anything. This "emptiness" phenomenon was also true for
> other dirs. weird!
> Any words of wisdom?
This is way to big an operation to solve this problem. You can specify
which shell you want to su:
su -s /bin/bash
and you are root again. Then you can run chsh or simply edit the last
item of root in /etc/passwd.
HTH
Eric
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