"James P. Kinney III" wrote:
>
> 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.
It does start a new shell though (I just tried it). So unless
you have some user available with a valid shell and the
ability to edit /etc/passwd, you are going to have to
boot the machine some other way to fix this.
-- Joe
> 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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