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

[Steve Wingate <srwingat@gte.net>]

This doesn't work on my Solaris 7 box, which coincidentally I am also locked 
out of for simliar reasons.


On Tuesday 02 January 2001 16:03, Kevin Sindhu wrote:

> > 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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