Re: Lost root access :-(

2000-06-28 Thread Rodríguez
Anyway 'chsh' is for admin use, not editing directly /etc/passwd, doing that is a bad practice (i do too as always i think but that dont mean it's ok). At 23.00 27/6/00 +0200, Harald Thingelstad wrote: On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Frank van der Hulst wrote: > Help!!! > > I just installed Debian GN

Re: Lost root access :-(

2000-06-27 Thread Frank van der Hulst
Many thanks to those who emailed me help. In the end (after perusing the list archives), I figured out that there's many more parameters that can follow 'rescue' when booting from the CDROM. In particular, I found that rescue root=/dev/hda1 single was enough to get root access back. From there,

Re: Lost root access :-(

2000-06-27 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 04:21:16PM +1200, Frank van der Hulst wrote: > Help!!! > > I just installed Debian GNU/Linux, everything was going well. > > Then I decided I'd change the shell for root to the C shell. So I used > emacs to change the /etc/passwd entry for root, so that root's shell is > /

Re: Lost root access :-(

2000-06-27 Thread Ron Rademaker
I prefer booting with a lilo option like init=/bin/sh, remounting the root partition read-write and edit again... Or perhaps you got sudo installed and configed?? That'll be the easiest ... Ron Rademaker On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Harald Thingelstad wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Frank van der Hulst w

Re: Lost root access :-(

2000-06-27 Thread Harald Thingelstad
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Frank van der Hulst wrote: > Help!!! > > I just installed Debian GNU/Linux, everything was going well. > > Then I decided I'd change the shell for root to the C shell. So I used > emacs to change the /etc/passwd entry for root, so that root's shell is > /bin/tcsh > > Then,

Re: Lost root access :-(

2000-06-27 Thread Frank Mehnert
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

Lost root access :-(

2000-06-27 Thread Frank van der Hulst
Help!!! I just installed Debian GNU/Linux, everything was going well. Then I decided I'd change the shell for root to the C shell. So I used emacs to change the /etc/passwd entry for root, so that root's shell is /bin/tcsh Then, I found that tcsh isn't in the /bin directory! And I've logged out