I figured it out. I had to run "sync" to flush the changes to the disk.
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, William T Wilson wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > ok, that let me in, but when I rebooted the changes were not saved to the
> > drive. is there a command I have run after I
No, but I hope you used the 'vipw' command to modify the /etc/passwd file.
Marco
>ok, that let me in, but when I rebooted the changes were not saved to the
>drive. is there a command I have run after I change the /etc/passwd file?
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On Thu, 30 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> ok, that let me in, but when I rebooted the changes were not saved to the
> drive. is there a command I have run after I change the /etc/passwd file?
No. Are you sure you saved the file in whatever editor you used?
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ok, that let me in, but when I rebooted the changes were not saved to the
drive. is there a command I have run after I change the /etc/passwd file?
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Matt Housh wrote:
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> Hold down shift when you boot. That will get you a lilo prompt.
> Type 'image init=/bin/sh'. A
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> wrong path to the shell. So, now I can't log in as root. I have tried to
> go into single user mode, but the delay on lilo is set to 0, and I can't
So hold the shift key down while it is booting. That will give you the
LILO prompt even if the del
Hold down shift when you boot. That will get you a lilo prompt.
Type 'image init=/bin/sh'. Assuming that is where sh resides, which is
almost always the case, you will get a shell without login. Edit the
/etc/passwd file manually to fix your shell. HTH
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>I was changing the shell for root today and I accidently typed in the
>wrong path to the shell. So, now I can't log in as root. I have tried to
>go into single user mode, but the delay on lilo is set to 0, and I can't
>catch it before it boots. Can anyone tell me how I can get in to change
>th
