[Sunhelp] hosed up root login... HELP!

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ds [mailto:ds at primenet.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2000 7:37 PM
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [Sunhelp] hosed up root login... HELP!
> 
> 
> One of our Admin's just built his new Ultra 5.  After he was done, he
> wanted to change the Root shell to Korn.  In doing so, he changed the
> correct shell name in the passwd file, yet he forgot to change to path
> to the shell.
> 
> Now when he log's in, it boots him out and he had already created his
> own user account with sysadmin priv., yet we think he is back to
> re-installing the OS to get back in.
> 
> We tried booting to single user via the CD and still couldn't get in.

What do you mean that you still couldn't get in?  Booting from the CD
shouldn't use any files from the hard disk.  The 3 or 4 times that I've done
the same thing (except with tcsh), I've been able to ok boot cdrom -s and
change the entry in /etc/passwd back to /bin/sh and reboot.  Then I can
log-in and finish changing my shell.
	Greg