Re: Lost root access :-(
I prefer booting with a lilo option like init=/bin/sh, remounting the root
partition read-write and edit again...
Or perhaps you got sudo installed and configed?? That'll be the easiest
...
Ron Rademaker
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Harald Thingelstad wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Frank van der Hulst wrote:
>
> > Help!!!
> >
> > I just installed Debian GNU/Linux, everything was going well.
> >
> > Then I decided I'd change the shell for root to the C shell. So I used
> > emacs to change the /etc/passwd entry for root, so that root's shell is
> > /bin/tcsh
> >
> > Then, I found that tcsh isn't in the /bin directory! And I've logged out
> ...
>
> This is normally the kind of problem maintenance partitions are meant for!
> (Great for troubles with your base system, and also for fiddling
> with the main root partition. Hope you have some disk space available.
> You can trash your swap partition if needed.)
>
> A maintenance partition is an extra linux installation on the same system,
> bootable via floppy or lilo. Contains a usable system plus basic utilities
> like mount and a small editor in your case, but also disk (repair) tools,
> , maybe some kernel compiler necessities, lilo, chroot et cetera.
> 100 Mb should suffice.
>
> Get my idea?
> Should be on any system. Or at least, should be *installable* on any
> system.
>
> I *will* fix my mailer someday.
> Harald
>
> Philosophy, law, medicine and even theology, alas! I studied everything with
> an ardent will and here I am, poor fool, just as far behind as ever.
> No more advanced than before.
> Goethe - Faust
>
>
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