Re: Locked out of Root after attemting to change shells

1998-01-08 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 04:09:02PM -0500, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I recently installed Debian Linux 1.3 on my computer, and while I > > was trying to change my login shell for root the other day with chsh, > > I accidently typed in an incorrect

Re: Locked out of Root after attemting to change shells

1998-01-08 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > To whom it may concern: > > I recently installed Debian Linux 1.3 on my computer, and while I > was trying to change my login shell for root the other day with chsh, > I accidently typed in an incorrect path to the shell I wanted. Being > root,

Re: Locked out of Root after attemting to change shells

1998-01-08 Thread Will Lowe
On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > was trying to change my login shell for root the other day with chsh, > I accidently typed in an incorrect path to the shell I wanted. Being Learn to use sudo, when you need to work as root. It helps eliminate some "oops"es that can really fuggle

Locked out of Root after attemting to change shells

1998-01-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To whom it may concern: I recently installed Debian Linux 1.3 on my computer, and while I was trying to change my login shell for root the other day with chsh, I accidently typed in an incorrect path to the shell I wanted. Being root, I was not restricted in the path choice that I made, so n