[SunHELP] Query regarding /etc/passwd

[Dale Ghent]

On Thu, 16 May 2002, TAG DBA wrote:

| Hi,
| On one oft my old Unix boxes here is how the entry for root in /etc/passwd
| reads
| # cat /etc/passwd | grep root
| root :x:0:3:0000-Admin(0000):/:
|
| Now, i checked the passwd file of my sun box, the root user has the shell
| explicitly set as bourne shell.How is it that this old box has no shell
| defined for root.
|
| The reason I ask, well , just recently i couldnot logon as root.I could
| logon as other users, but when i tried to login as root i kep getting the
| 'Invalid ID' error.If I directly login as root ite connects and disconnects
| immediately.
| ROOTLOGIN=yes in /etc/default/login and er
| the CONSOLE=/dev/console  has been commenhted out.
|
| What should I do??

Is the space that's between "root" and the : not obvious?

Also, your root user does not have a shell from the entry you pasted
above. It should be /sbin/sh.

/dale