[ale] no root shell

[Rick Huebner]

I had this happen on Solaris.  I had to boot to the CDROM.  Then use vi to
edit the passwd file for root so that the shell does exist.  What happened
to me was that a bright consultant changed from the ksh to the csh, but had
a typo and changed ksh to cdh!!!!

Try booting to a linux boot cd.  You can find one online at many
sites...just do a google search for it.  You can probably also get a boot
floppy, but I always carry a linux rescue CD with network stuff and the
ability to mount a vfat partition to save me in cases where winbloze fails
and I need to get stuff off the disks.

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Rick Huebner
rick at rhuebner.com
http://ditchdoctor.dyndns.org:15001


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mazukna, Thomas" <Thomas.Mazukna at delta.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 1:27 PM
Subject: [ale] no root shell


> Hi,
>
> I have an issue on my hands.
> the shell specified in passwd for root does not exist.
> how to get into "root" ?
>
> thanks,
> Tomas
>
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