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Re: How to login to a machine with invalid shell in /etc/passwd?



Ello,

I 2nd that, and yes, su - root -c /bin/sh works.

>From  man su(1M):

Example 3: Executing command  with  User  bin's  Environment
and Permissions

To execute command  with the temporary environment and  per-
missions of user bin, type:

example% su - bin -c "command args"

Also, you could always boot -s which will give you /bin/sh for root, and
then mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 etc.

HTH

-Kevin

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