[SunHELP] RE: Root Access Problem

[Christopher J Ceska]

This should be a lesson never to changed root's shell.  There is no
reason to do this.  If you want more reasons send me mail, I will gladly 
explain.

If you need a root account with a differant shell make a 'toor' account
with the same UID but whatever shell you want. 

-chris

On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 11:49:36AM -0500, Sesetty, Ravikumar (GXS, Myta) wrote:
> You must have CD to boot in, and to change the passwd file. Or should you
> have another account with root privileges.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Krishna_Raj at forethought.com [mailto:Krishna_Raj at forethought.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 10:08 AM
> To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
> Cc: Sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: 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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Christopher J Ceska                                         chris at apk.net
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