[ale] no root shell

[James P. Kinney III]

Yep. That's what I see from my testings as well. I thought it would
bypass, but it looks like your screwed without local console access.

Anybody got sudo access to vi?

On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 16:19, 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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