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

[Truman Boyes <truman@research.suspicious.org>]

why dont you boot off of your cdrom media, mount your harddisk read/write,
and vi/ed your passwd file ?

single usermode from cdrom media is usually the best bet.

cheers,
.truman.boyes.
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On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Steve Wingate wrote:

> 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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