[ale] no root shell

[Jerry Z. Yu]

good news is:	that gives me 'unknown id' error under stock Solaris 
2.7/sparc. 
-s switch is available in GNU 'su', only if the shell is allowed in 
/etc/shells.

On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Joseph A Knapka wrote:

#"James P. Kinney III" wrote:
#> 
#> su -s /bin/sh  should force the use of /bin/sh
#
#Perhaps, but it apparently does so by starting the default shell
#and then exec'ing the -s argument. (Actually if it were possible
#to get around using the shell specified in /etc/passwd, I think
#that would be a serious security hole - consider
#"su -s /bin/sh ftp" and similar).
#
#-- Joe
#
#> 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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