On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Frank van der Hulst wrote: > Is there a way to login as root, and specify the shell to run?
Very easy if you have physical access to the machine: Reboot, hold the Shift key while LILO is booting, enter the default booting image name (e.g. Linux) and append init=/bin/bash as booting parameter on the LILO command line. Then wait until Linux is up: If necessary, mount /usr partition and remount the root partition as writable: mount /usr mount -o remount -w / Edit /etc/password with your favourite editor and save it. After that, you have to make sure that the file is written back to the harddisk. Finally, reboot: sync mount -o remount -r / umount /usr reboot Frank -- Frank Mehnert ## Dept. of Computer Science, Dresden University of Technology, Germany ## ## E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/~fm3 ##
