[ale] no root shell

[James P. Kinney III]

su -s /bin/sh  should force the use of /bin/sh

use your favorite

On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 15:25, Joseph A Knapka wrote:
> "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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