Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 16:43:28 -0800 From: Jason Wells <jcwells@u.washington.edu> To: Ravi Pina <falcon@gersh.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Invalid Shell Lockout Message-ID: <33177BB0.2451@u.washington.edu> References: <331771C1.FF6D5DF@gersh.org>
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Ravi Pina wrote: > > Well, I seemt o have supplied an invalid shell for root, so when I want > to su over it gives me a Permission denied! I appear to be completely > locked out of the system as a result... any idea what I can do to > overcome this problem? It owuld be nice if it just fell back to /bin/sh > or something so you can login even if you're a dork like me. I did this. I seem to recall that I just logged in as root (not su) and was able to select my shell. If you want to use a different shell you can edited /etc/shells and put the desired shell in this file. Then it will no longer be invalid. You may also try reading man su. I beleive that you can su -m without the shell being changed. This will give you your root power back. As you will be root but with the pre-existing shell. Then you can edit everything and make it right. -- __ __ / 0\ / 0\ Thank you * Highperformance.net ) Wannabe Sysadmin * The homeless domain )-------( Jason Wells * "Pardon me sir, spare some bandwidth?" \_____/
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