Hi... Yes, I do have some words of wisdom. Mount the disk to /target (or just mount it through the GUI), and everything should be under /target. (i.e. /target/etc/passwd)
Alex On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Marlon Urias wrote: > Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 23:13:19 -0700 (PDT) > From: Marlon Urias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: I've hozed my root login. > Resent-Date: 21 Jul 1998 06:13:23 -0000 > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; > > 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? > marlon > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
