> > > > > This is way to big an operation to solve this problem. You can specify > > which shell you want to su: > > > > su -s /bin/bash > > Thanks for the help, unfortunately it didn't work. It seemed to ignore > the shell directive, it spit out something about > " /bad/shell/path not valid" even though I scecificaly told it to use a > valid shell. I read the su man page and it agreed with your > recommendation but alas it wouldn't let me log on as root. > Is my system buggy?
Maybe the reason is that your login shell is not in /etc/shells. Then su doesn't trust the -s option, and takes the default for root (at least it does so on my bo system). See if your login shell is in /etc/shells, if not, try to add it with a command like su root -c 'vi /etc/shells' (subsitute your favorite editor for vi, if you prefer that). This will ask for the super user passwd and then start an editor session as root. When I think of it, you can also change root's shell like this: su root -c 'chsh' HTH, Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax +31 40 2455054 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
