Le 12353ième jour après Epoch,
Anish Muttreja écrivait:
> Hi everybody
> I did something very silly on mu laptop. I manged to set the root
> shell to an incorrect value.
> Now I can't login as root. I know idiots like me should never be root
> and the world is probably a better place this way , but then neither
> can anybody else :-D.
> Short of booting the laptop with a knoppix cd and correcting /etc/passwd,
> Is there any other hope ? Basically is there a way to overwrite
> /etc/passwd.
> I tried su --shell=/bin/bash .That says No shell and exits.
> I will really appreciate all suggestions.
Try to boot in single user mode, then edit /etc/passwd or /etc/shells ...
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> Alan Cox wrote:
[..]
No I didnt. Someone else wrote that. Please keep attributions
straight.
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