On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 04:33, Anish Muttreja wrote: > 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.
For future reference, the way to solve this is to append "init=/bin/bash" to the kernel boot parameters (both GRUB and LILO offer ways of doing this). Then you can change the password (or do anything else you desire). -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
