On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 10:24:09AM +0200, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > > > > As root I ran chsh and accidentally entered an > > invalid shell path. chsh didn't detect this mistake > > like it does for a regular user! > > I wasn't aware of my blunder till next time I tried to > > login as root. > > I tried booting from the rescue floppy and then mounting > > my linux drive so that I might edit /etc/passwd but the > > mount did something weird, when I "cd /mnt/etc" there was > > nothing there, I mean the dir was empty, hence I couldn't > > edit anything. This "emptiness" phenomenon was also true for > > other dirs. weird! > > Any words of wisdom? > > This is way to big an operation to solve this problem. You can specify > which shell you want to su: > > su -s /bin/bash > > and you are root again. Then you can run chsh or simply edit the last > item of root in /etc/passwd.
Thats good to know...and another tip... you can also reboot and (assuming you use lilo) give the kernel Linux /bin/bash then you will immediately get a root login...no questions asked :) this is usefull if you REALLY hose the system....or if you are not obsessed with your uptime :) of course now im not obsessed with my uptime...after a few kernel builds...and power outage last night (I love my UPS)...my uptime is under a day. -Steve -- /* -- Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>------------ */ E-mail "Bumper Stickers": "A FREE America or a Drug-Free America: You can't have both!" "honk if you Love Linux" -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
