[SunHELP] Root Access Problem

[Edward Chase]

<rant>

Didn't we recently go through this on this list?

*** Please read the entire question before sending out a useless reply. ***

Krishna has stated that she (???, I hope) does not have an OS CD.

</rant>


At 11:42 AM 2/9/2001 -0600, Canada, Brian wrote:

>boot cdrom -s
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Krishna_Raj at forethought.com 
>[<mailto:Krishna_Raj at forethought.com>mailto:Krishna_Raj at forethought.com]
>Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 9:08 AM
>To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
>Cc: Sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>Subject: [SunHELP] Root Access Problem
>
>Hello everybody:
>
>      When trying to change the default shell of root, I put in a incorrect
>location (/sbin/ksh instead of /bin/sh) in /etc/passwd file. Without 
>realising,
>I logged out & now, I am trying to logon, it says 'No shell' or invalid 
>shell. I
>haven't set up any passwd for root. I even tried to ftp change the passwd 
>file
>but, I am not able to ftp as root as because ID does not have password.
>
>      How do I fix this problem ? I do not have OS CD with me, I got is 
> machine
>pre-installed with Solaris 7.
>
>Please let me know.
>Thanks in Advance
>Krishna

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