rhh@jolt.att.com (Robert Hu) writes:
# I did the same thing a while back. If your machine allows it, try to ftp into it
# as root. Your can then either put in a new version of /etc/passwd or create the
# misstyped directory and put in a copy of shell.
Hmm, not sure this would work. Under sunos if the users shell isn't
in /etc/shells (or bourn/csh if there is no etc/shells) the user can't
login.
# Robert Hu
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# In article 94Apr13204116@se05.wg2.waii.com, dla@se05.wg2.waii.com (Doug Acker) writes:
# > >>>>> "Ning" == Ning Qian <qian@peduncle.ai.mit.edu> writes:
# > In article <2ohov1INN330@life.ai.mit.edu> qian@peduncle.ai.mit.edu (Ning Qian) writes:
# >
# >
# > Ning> It might be simpler to boot to single user mode with the
# > Ning> command "boot cdrom -s" as suggested by several people but I
# > Ning> didn't get a chance to use it.
# >
# >
# > That won't work .. under Solaris 2.3, single user mode asks for the password.
Actually, all you have to do is boot from the cdrom, start a command
tool, mount the HD root partition and edit the file. Works fine. I've
had to do it myself. :-)
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