Hi... Anyone who has an up time over a week probably is obsessed with it. I haven't got quite that much, but I'm slowly getting there... hell, I only upgraded this thing a few days ago :)
Alex On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 09:38:16 -0400 > From: "Stephen J. Carpenter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: I've hozed my root login. > Resent-Date: 21 Jul 1998 13:32:08 -0000 > Resent-From: [email protected] > Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; > > On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 10:24:09AM +0200, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > > > > > > As root I ran chsh and accidentally entered an > > > invalid shell path. chsh didn't detect this mistake > > > like it does for a regular user! > > > I wasn't aware of my blunder till next time I tried to > > > login as root. > > > I tried booting from the rescue floppy and then mounting > > > my linux drive so that I might edit /etc/passwd but the > > > mount did something weird, when I "cd /mnt/etc" there was > > > nothing there, I mean the dir was empty, hence I couldn't > > > edit anything. This "emptiness" phenomenon was also true for > > > other dirs. weird! > > > Any words of wisdom? > > > > This is way to big an operation to solve this problem. You can specify > > which shell you want to su: > > > > su -s /bin/bash > > > > and you are root again. Then you can run chsh or simply edit the last > > item of root in /etc/passwd. > > Thats good to know...and another tip... > you can also reboot and (assuming you use lilo) give the kernel > Linux /bin/bash > then you will immediately get a root login...no questions asked :) > > this is usefull if you REALLY hose the system....or > if you are not obsessed with your uptime :) > > of course now im not obsessed with my uptime...after a few kernel builds...and > power outage last night (I love my UPS)...my uptime is under a day. > > -Steve > -- > /* -- Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]>------------ */ > E-mail "Bumper Stickers": > "A FREE America or a Drug-Free America: You can't have both!" > "honk if you Love Linux" > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
