[SPARCbook] Hosed /etc/passwd file

[Ken Hansen]

Sorry, going through old email - wouldn't a file link solve
this problem? Make a link to /bin/bash called /bin/bashXY?

HTH,

Ken
khansen at njcc.com

-----Original Message-----
From: James D. Meacham <jmeacham at hume.jhuccp.org>
To: sparcbook at sunhelp.org <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
Date: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 8:10 AM
Subject: [SPARCbook] Hosed /etc/passwd file


>
>So, I'm going against the Conventional Wisdom and editing /etc/passwd on
>my 3GX running 2.6 by hand.  Although I've been trying to teach my 22
>mo/old son proper computer values by giving him his own Intel machine (an
>old 486) to bang on while telling him at all times to respect the unix
>equiptment, while I was edit the file, he jumped into my lap.  Now the
>shell section of root line in /etc/passwd reads /bin/bashXY .So now I
>can't login or su to root.  It won't even let me run commands as root
>'cause there is no shell to handle them.  Even booting into single-user
>mode doesn't work; I just get a "no shell" message and it boots into
>multi-user.  Very frustrating, because I didn't notice it had happened at
>the time, and i've been using it in root mode doing systems suspends for
>the last few weeks.  Anyone have any suggestions, or am I going to have to
>boot from an external CD?  Jeez.
>
>James 
>
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