In article <mkeCo9syp.w3@netcom.com>, Mike Miller Jr. <mke@netcom.com> wrote:
>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.
Are you sure of that? I have a few odd scripts that are called up as
logins that do "bbs" related things, info-servers and the like, and I
have never written those into /etc/shells.
Or does that only work because the user never actually logs in to a shell?
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