Re: I've hozed my root login.
Hi...
Ugh! I forgot `su' too!! Thanks for reminding me, maybe I'll remember
when/if I do that to myself. ;)
Alex
On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 10:24:09 +0200 (MET DST)
> From: "E.L. Meijer (Eric)" <tgakem@sg10.chem.tue.nl>
> To: debian <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: Re: I've hozed my root login.
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> >
> > 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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