[ale] no root shell

[James P. Kinney III]

You will need to reboot the box with an alternate boot device, i.e. toms
root boot disk is good. Once in, edit the passwd file to point to a real
shell.

You might be able to edit it by su. Don't use su - as this will cause it
to try and use the params for root. Without it, it should use the same
environment as the original user but with an effective uid of 0.

On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 13:27, Mazukna, Thomas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have an issue on my hands.
> the shell specified in passwd for root does not exist.
> how to get into "root" ? 
> 
> thanks,
> Tomas
> 
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