Re: I've hozed my root login.
Hi...
Yes, I do have some words of wisdom. Mount the disk to /target (or just
mount it through the GUI), and everything should be under /target. (i.e.
/target/etc/passwd)
Alex
On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Marlon Urias wrote:
> Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 23:13:19 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Marlon Urias <nolram@OCF.Berkeley.EDU>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: 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?
> marlon
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