>From ratinox@unilab.dfci.harvard.edu Thu Sep 12 14:55:23 1996 Return-Path: Received: from unilab.dfci.harvard.edu by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id OAA06682; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:55:21 -0400 Received: (from ratinox@localhost) by unilab.dfci.harvard.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA06532; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:00:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Richard Pieri To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (Bobby Huynh) Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user References: <199609121828.OAA06536@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil> Date: 12 Sep 1996 15:00:05 -0400 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil's message of Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:28:09 -0400 Lines: 28 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.40/Emacs 19.34 Status: RO Content-Type: text X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 1004 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>>>> "BH" == Bobby Huynh writes: supper user? is this the account you log into for dinner? :) BH> Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh BH> for root. Dig out your installation CD, boot that, mount the local root disk, and edit it back to /bin/sh. *NEVER* have anything other than /bin/sh as root's shell. Other UID 0 accounts can have other shells, but root should never be anything but /bin/sh. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBMjhduJ6VRH7BJMxHAQE0WwP/YIIDUAg8dBwQLDmK+zxXRrzDzv+N+E0V IB6cxd9W7nUdDOmrUPu/fKQ4ODRVQhlzJpIcokKJti+mbXIErr7vcv3j7oyBZ4Jv s/UCVBIeGSfB0HDFrqq3rxehH2fpP1N6IVCFN6vw9+vuxyYAojG7nKT/JaolWHBM fU8Ddctm//0= =4KPK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Richard Pieri/Information Services \ Never sleep alone when you can sleep on \ someone's face. -A cat's guide to life http://www.dfci.harvard.edu/ \ >From Bill.O'Brien@eng.canadair.ca Thu Sep 12 15:01:23 1996 Return-Path: Received: from glengoyne.canadair.ca by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA06696; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:01:16 -0400 Received: from moosehead.eng.canadair.ca by glengoyne.canadair.ca with SMTP id AA21077 (5.65+/IDA-1.3.5 for bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil); Thu, 12 Sep 96 15:06:41 -0400 Received: from eng.canadair.ca (cat944.eng.canadair.ca) by moosehead.eng.canadair.ca with SMTP id AA28039 (5.65c/IDA-1.3.5 for bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil); Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:08:33 -0400 From: Bill.O'Brien@eng.canadair.ca Received: (bo084426@localhost) by eng.canadair.ca (8.7.5/8.6.6) id PAA40346; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:08:53 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:08:53 -0400 Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (Bobby Huynh) Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199609121828.OAA06536@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil> Status: RO Content-Type: text X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 630 How are you su'ing try $su root NOT $su - root which shld give you root auth with your normal user environment. Then edit /etc/passwd and then run pwconv to synchronize things. Don't know if this will help....Good luck. Looking forward to your summary! Cheers -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill O'Brien 400 Chemin de la Cote-Vertu EIS Department Dorval,(Quebec) H4S-1Y9 Bombardier-Canadair Tel : (514) 855-5001 Ext. 6684 Internet: bill.o'brien@eng.canadair.ca Fax : (514) 855-7301 "That which is important is invisible to the eye!" >From colinj@parc.anglia.ac.uk Thu Sep 12 15:02:24 1996 Return-Path: Received: from firefly by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA06701; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:02:20 -0400 Received: from maverick.parc.anglia.ac.uk by firefly (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id UAA10416; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 20:03:27 +0100 Received: by maverick.parc.anglia.ac.uk (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id UAA19816; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 20:00:53 +0100 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 20:00:53 +0100 From: colinj@parc.anglia.ac.uk (Colin Johnston) Message-Id: <199609121900.UAA19816@maverick.parc.anglia.ac.uk> To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user Cc: colinj@parc.anglia.ac.uk Status: RO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: HDonS2A3YE2uP08uh5efEA== Content-Length: 164 Hi, boot off cdrom and then edit out the bad info in the /etc/passwd file Hope this helps Bye Colin Johnston PARC Research Team Anglia Polytechnic University UK >From tommy@vumclib.mc.vanderbilt.edu Thu Sep 12 15:02:45 1996 Return-Path: Received: from vumclib.mc.vanderbilt.edu by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA06705; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:02:40 -0400 Received: from [160.129.203.10] (tommy.mc.vanderbilt.edu [160.129.203.10]) by vumclib.mc.vanderbilt.edu (8.7.5/8.7.5) with ESMTP id OAA06877 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:07:46 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199609121828.OAA06536@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:07:45 -0500 To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (Bobby Huynh) From: Tommy Williams Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user Status: RO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: eg66YCa+87CJW0PoUt1qhQ== Content-Length: 1376 At 13:28 -0500 on 09/12/96, Bobby Huynh wrote: > Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for >root. I > missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log in as >"root" it > give a message "no shell" and kick back to login prompt. I even try to >boot at > single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). It give me a same error. I did >try to > log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail. Could anyone >please help > me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. If you're using Solaris and have a CD-ROM drive attached: Boot off the Solaris 2.x Installation CD-ROM (by going to ok> prompt with disk in CD-ROM drive and typing 'boot cdrom'). >From there, use the command window to mount your / partition in the /mnt space: mount /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0 /mnt (substitute the proper path to your root partition) Edit the /etc/passwd file and correct your mistake. Then: shutdown -i0 -y -g0 ok> boot And you should be back in business. You may even be able to just do a reboot from the command tool, but I'm not sure whether or not the system will boot from the CD again or whether it will use the internal drive. If you're not using Solaris with a CD-ROM, you better get help from some of the other people. ;) Good luck. -- Tommy Williams mailto:tommy@vumclib.mc.vanderbilt.edu >From ric@rtd.com Thu Sep 12 15:05:41 1996 Return-Path: Received: from seagull.rtd.com by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA06709; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:04:07 -0400 Received: (from ric@localhost) by seagull.rtd.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA00212 for bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 12:09:22 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 12:09:22 -0700 (MST) From: Ric Anderson Message-Id: <199609121909.MAA00212@seagull.rtd.com> To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user Status: RO Content-Type: text X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 802 Boot from the CD-ROM. When the first screen of the install stuff comes up, click on the background with the right mouse button. This will pop up a menu from which you can pick a command tool or shell tool. Once you have that, enter the following commands mount /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0 /mnt cd /mnt/etc edit passwd to change roots shell back to /sbin/sh cd / umount /mnt reboot and you should be back in business. Leave root's shell alone. Its a statically linked shell, and you will need that some days. I have a section in /.profile that prompts for an alternate environment, but you can bypass that with a simple carriage return. That lets you run an alternate shell if you wish, but doesn't make it the default. Cheers, Ric ( "Ric Anderson", using RTD's public internet access) >From colinj@parc.anglia.ac.uk Thu Sep 12 15:10:25 1996 Return-Path: Received: from firefly by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA06714; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:10:12 -0400 Received: from maverick.parc.anglia.ac.uk by firefly (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id UAA10673; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 20:11:19 +0100 Received: by maverick.parc.anglia.ac.uk (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id UAA19839; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 20:08:44 +0100 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 20:08:44 +0100 From: colinj@parc.anglia.ac.uk (Colin Johnston) Message-Id: <199609121908.UAA19839@maverick.parc.anglia.ac.uk> To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user Cc: colinj@parc.anglia.ac.uk Status: RO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: l9oCYACA00xe8vhc9dzSpA== Content-Length: 610 Hi forgot to say you have to mount the root partition once you have booted off cdrom. ie install screen appears DO NOT continue right mouse click and load up console window see below for mount command mkdir /a/tmp mount -F nfs -o rw /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /a/tmp or mount -F nfs -o rw /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 /a/tmp (not sure which is the correct one to mount (try both) one wont mount then try other) Why do I know this info, well the root harddrive bust(Thanks SEAGATE) and the replacement needed to be restored from tape. Hope this helps Bye Colin Johnston PARC Research Team Anglia Polytechnic University UK >From popp@luey.redars.ca.boeing.com Thu Sep 12 15:13:05 1996 Return-Path: Received: from atc.boeing.com by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA06723; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:13:03 -0400 Received: by atc.boeing.com (5.65/splinter.boeing.com) id AA16358; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 12:17:58 -0700 Received: from luey.redars.ca.Boeing.COM by splinter.boeing.com with ESMTP (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA091745777; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 12:16:17 -0700 Received: from fledge.redars.SIL by luey.redars.ca.Boeing.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA02947; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 12:17:08 -0700 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 12:17:08 -0700 From: popp@luey.redars.ca.boeing.com (Jeff Popp ) Message-Id: <199609121917.MAA02947@luey.redars.ca.Boeing.COM> To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user Status: RO Content-Type: text X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 653 You have no alternative but to boot from a CDROM, mount the disk partition and the re-edit the passwd file. Most of us have done the same thing.............ONCE!! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- .....UNIX for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. - Matthew 19:12 Jeff Popp Boeing REDARS popp@luey.redars.ca.boeing.com voice (206) 237-7391 pager (206) 541-ALKI ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The secret to this job is working half days. Fortunately, I get to choose which 12 hour period that entails......... >From TPlesha@seacosd.navy.mil Thu Sep 12 15:18:44 1996 Return-Path: Received: from nslcdp-nt003.seacosd.navy.mil by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA06728; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:18:33 -0400 Received: by nslcdp-nt003.seacosd.navy.mil with Microsoft Exchange (IMC 4.0.837.3) id <01BBA0A5.41526EF0@nslcdp-nt003.seacosd.navy.mil>; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 12:23:50 -0700 Message-ID: From: "Plesha, Thomas A. (NSLC Pacific)" To: "'bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil'" Subject: RE: No Shell for supper user Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 12:23:46 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.0.837.3 Status: RO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: cc4Twn2bT0rIZNeQVa5J1w== Content-Length: 1133 Boot to single user mode from the CD-ROM (boot cdrom -s). Mount your drive, set your term type to sun, and vi the /etc/passwd file. Have fun. -- H.A.N.D. ;-) Thomas A. Plesha Physical: NSLC Pacific Voice (510)246-5949 P.O. Box 1307 FAX (510)246-5944 Benicia, CA 94510-4037 http://www.seacosd.navy.mil "Every morning is the dawn of a new error" >---------- >From: > bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil[SMTP:bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil] >Sent: Thursday, September 12, 1996 11:28 >To: sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.gov >Subject: No Shell for supper user > >Hi al, > >Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for >root. I >missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log in as >"root" it >give a message "no shell" and kick back to login prompt. I even try to >boot at >single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). It give me a same error. I did >try to >log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail. Could anyone >please help >me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. > >Thank you > >From Brian_White.ERIM@notes.erim.org Thu Sep 12 15:20:44 1996 Return-Path: Received: from csd5b by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA06733; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:20:38 -0400 Received: from notes.erim.org by csd5b (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA23190; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:26:36 -0400 Received: by notes.erim.org (IBM OS/2 SENDMAIL VERSION 1.3.14/1.0) id AA8185; Thu, 12 Sep 96 15:25:51 -0400 Message-Id: <9609121925.AA8185@notes.erim.org> Received: from ERIM with "Lotus Notes Mail Gateway for SMTP" id 20001ED6D54B70D9852563A3006A817B; Thu, 12 Sep 96 15:25:49 To: Bobby Huynh From: Brian White Date: 12 Sep 96 15:24:51 Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user Status: RO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: wRKYSmf0ksSYhxTr6ujBFw== Content-Length: 331 I am speaking from experience. The only way to get around this problem is to boot cdrom and manually change root passwd. Just delete the old encrypted passwd and when you log in it won't require a passwd. Then set it. I kjnow it sounds like a pain but it is the only way I have found. good Luck Brian White white@erim.org >From root@wisdom.Maf.Nasa.Gov Thu Sep 12 15:24:11 1996 Return-Path: Received: from wisdom.maf.nasa.gov.Maf.Nasa.Gov by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA06739; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:24:08 -0400 Received: by wisdom.maf.nasa.gov.Maf.Nasa.Gov (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA18883; Thu, 12 Sep 96 14:29:22 CDT Date: Thu, 12 Sep 96 14:29:22 CDT From: root@wisdom.Maf.Nasa.Gov Message-Id: <9609121929.AA18883@wisdom.maf.nasa.gov.Maf.Nasa.Gov> To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user Status: RO Content-Type: text X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 962 > From sun-managers-relay@ra.mcs.anl.gov Thu Sep 12 14:26:56 1996 > > Hi al, > > Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for root. I > missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log in as "root" it > give a message "no shell" and kick back to login prompt. I even try to boot at > single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). It give me a same error. I did try to > log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail. Could anyone please help > me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. > > Thank you > Bobby, You will have to boot from a cdrom and mount the / partition to modify the password file. Thanks, Mark ------------------------------------------ Mark Hargrave, Sr. Unix Systems Manager Lockheed Martin Manned Space Systems PO Box 29304 Mail Stop: 3414 New Orleans, LA 70189 Phone: 504-257-1242 E-Mail: meh@wisdom.maf.nasa.gov ------------------------------------------ >From benji@hnt.com Thu Sep 12 15:28:15 1996 Return-Path: Received: from hnt.com by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA06744; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:28:04 -0400 Received: (from benji@localhost) by hnt.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA16062; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:33:32 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:33:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Benjamin Cline X-Sender: benji@columbus To: Bobby Huynh Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user In-Reply-To: <199609121828.OAA06536@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil> Message-ID: Status: RO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: fy2mCjCDiWUy3fcdzJ8Kzw== Content-Length: 867 On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Bobby Huynh wrote: > Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for root. I > missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log in as "root" it > give a message "no shell" and kick back to login prompt. I even try to boot at > single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). It give me a same error. I did try to > log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail. Could anyone please help > me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. > I would boot into single user mode off the CD-ROM or network (if you don't already have network booting set-up, booting off the CD is going to be much easier), fsck and mount the root partition, and fix the passwd file. benji -- Benjamin R. Cline Harrison & Troxell, Inc. benji@hnt.com Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? >From duane@cris.com Thu Sep 12 15:29:24 1996 Return-Path: Received: from franklin.cris.com by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA06749; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:29:13 -0400 Received: from warp.cris.com (warp [199.3.12.181]) by franklin.cris.com (8.7.5/(96/09/02 2.52)) id PAA24102; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:34:24 -0400 (EDT) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] From: "Duane R. Larkin" Errors-To: duane@cris.com Received: by warp.cris.com (8.7.5) id PAA28269; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:34:23 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199609121934.PAA28269@warp.cris.com> Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:34:23 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <199609121828.OAA06536@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil> from "Bobby Huynh" at Sep 12, 96 02:28:09 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Status: RO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: Toe4yTYjwLG4LtyMeVriYQ== Content-Length: 1272 The only hope is to boot from the cd-rom. "boot -s cdrom" from the boot prom. Good Luck! > > Hi al, > > Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for root. I > missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log in as "root" it > give a message "no shell" and kick back to login prompt. I even try to boot at > single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). It give me a same error. I did try to > log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail. Could anyone please help > me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. > > Thank you > -- /------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | | | Duane R. Larkin Voice: 517-895-1621 | | System Admin. Fax: 517-895-1610 | | Concentric Network Corp. E-mail: duane@concentric.net | | 400 Forty First St. | | Bay City, Mi. 48708 Thank you and have a nice day! | | | \------------------------------------------------------------------------/ >From poffen@San-Jose.ate.slb.com Thu Sep 12 15:35:22 1996 Return-Path: Received: from San-Jose.ate.slb.com by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA06753; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:35:18 -0400 Received: from augusta.San-Jose.ate.slb.com by San-Jose.ate.slb.com (4.1/SMI-4.1-DNI-7.0.1-Z) id AA22040; Thu, 12 Sep 96 12:40:39 PDT From: poffen@San-Jose.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) Message-Id: <9609121940.AA22040@San-Jose.ate.slb.com> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 12:40:39 -0700 (PDT) To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user In-Reply-To: <199609121828.OAA06536@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil> X-Mailer: Ishmail 1.2.2-960610-sun Status: RO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: seMvqHXa4fmuqoY+PUscBw== Content-Length: 941 bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (Bobby Huynh) wrote: > Hi al, > > Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for root. I > missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log in as "root" it > give a message "no shell" and kick back to login prompt. I even try to boot > at > single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). It give me a same error. I did try to > log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail. Could anyone please > help > me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. > > Thank you Just about your only alternative is to boot the system from some other means (like CDROM) to a single user shell, then use an editor to fix the damage. -- Russ Poffenberger Engineering Specialist Schlumberger Technologies ATE DOMAIN: poffen@San-Jose.ate.slb.com 1601 Technology Drive CIS: 72401,276 San Jose, Ca. 95110 Voice: (408)437-5254 FAX: (408)437-5246 >From cledbett@homeaccount.com Thu Sep 12 15:39:40 1996 Return-Path: Received: from engr by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA06758; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:39:32 -0400 Received: from engr by engr (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA21021; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:43:57 -0400 Sender: cledbett@homeaccount.com Message-ID: <323867FC.78A0@homeaccount.com> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:43:56 -0400 From: Craig Ledbetter Organization: HANI X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; U; SunOS 5.5 sun4u) To: Bobby Huynh Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user References: <199609121828.OAA06536@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil> Status: RO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: tzXubrpTkQOlM9/ZxQHOFw== Content-Length: 679 Bobby Huynh wrote: > > Hi al, > > Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for root. I > missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log in as "root" it > give a message "no shell" and kick back to login prompt. I even try to boot at > single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). It give me a same error. I did try to > log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail. Could anyone please help > me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. > > Thank you I hope you have a CD-ROM on the system, because you need to boot from it with the installation media. Once it boots mount the / file system and edit /etc/passwd Craig >From edgrimm@neptune.mtc.ti.com Thu Sep 12 15:40:24 1996 Return-Path: Received: from dragon.ti.com by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA06765; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:40:13 -0400 Received: from landru.mtc.ti.com ([156.117.62.46]) by dragon.ti.com (8.6.13) with ESMTP id OAA13473 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:45:29 -0500 Received: from neptune.mtc.ti.com (neptune.mtc.ti.com [156.117.62.225]) by landru.mtc.ti.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id OAA31110 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:44:59 -0500 Received: (from edgrimm@localhost) by neptune.mtc.ti.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA29003 for bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:44:53 -0500 From: Edward Grimm Message-Id: <199609121944.OAA29003@neptune.mtc.ti.com> Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user In-Reply-To: <199609121828.OAA06536@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil> from Bobby Huynh at "Sep 12, 96 02:28:09 pm" To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:44:52 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] Status: RO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: vGMxqCNEintrQMkQpvZFfA== Content-Length: 1433 Bobby Huynh wrote: > Hi al, > > Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for > root. I missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log > in as "root" it give a message "no shell" and kick back to login > prompt. I even try to boot at single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). > It give me a same error. I did try to log in as moral user and su to > root but it also fail. Could anyone please help me with this. My > teammate is going to hang me soon. Have you tried ftping in as root? Many machines are set up to prevent this, but it's the one way you can get in without a shell. Another thing I can think of is make a boot floppy, but many systems are set up so that only root can do this. If you have another machine that you have root on, though, you may be able to do this. Unfortunately, I can't tell you how to make a Solaris boot disk, as I've never had the need to do it. I personally keep several super-user accounts on my system in case I screw one up. They do NOT share directories or anything. They even use different shells, so if I putz up the shell root uses, I'm not screwed. (I even have one that uses a dumbed-down version of sh, which is kept away from the standard executables, and set to be as impervious as possible. It also has the password in /etc/passwd in addition to /etc/shadow. Unless crypt also fails, I *WILL* be able to get into this account.) Ed >From jamesm@matrix.newpaltz.edu Thu Sep 12 15:42:16 1996 Return-Path: Received: from matrix.newpaltz.edu by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA06776; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:42:10 -0400 Received: (from jamesm@localhost) by matrix.newpaltz.edu (8.7.5/8.6.9) id PAA21049 for bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:47:00 -0400 (EDT) From: james mularadelis Message-Id: <199609121947.PAA21049@matrix.newpaltz.edu> Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:47:00 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <199609121828.OAA06536@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil> from "Bobby Huynh" at Sep 12, 96 02:28:09 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Status: UO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: oSyFXXkPesufY6yzSxfxKA== Content-Length: 915 > > Hi al, > > Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for root. I > missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log in as "root" it > give a message "no shell" and kick back to login prompt. I even try to boot at > single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). It give me a same error. I did try to > log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail. Could anyone please help > me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. > > Thank you > boot using a cdrom disk (using solaris type: boot cdrom -s) and then mount the root partition to /mnt and edit the password file correcting your error. since you're booting from the cdrom it won't ask you for a password james -- James Mularadelis - UNIX/NetWare Systems Programmer Computer Services HAB 50 - SUNY New Paltz - New Paltz, NY 12561 (914) 257-3130 - jamesm@matrix.newpaltz.edu, james@newpaltz.edu >From meritj@fincen.treas.gov Thu Sep 12 15:42:18 1996 Return-Path: Received: from tcs_gateway1.treas.gov by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA06780; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:42:16 -0400 Received: by tcs_gateway1.treas.gov id AA08891 (InterLock SMTP Gateway 3.0 for bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil); Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:47:37 -0400 Received: by tcs_gateway1.treas.gov (Internal Mail Agent-4); Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:47:37 -0400 Received: by tcs_gateway1.treas.gov (Internal Mail Agent-3); Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:47:37 -0400 Received: by tcs_gateway1.treas.gov (Internal Mail Agent-2); Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:47:37 -0400 Received: by tcs_gateway1.treas.gov (Internal Mail Agent-1); Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:47:37 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:50:45 -0400 From: meritj@fincen.treas.gov (Jim Meritt) Message-Id: <199609121950.PAA00326@dirham.fincen.gov> To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user Cc: sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.gov Status: UO Content-Type: text X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 699 Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for root. I missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log in as "root" it give a message "no shell" and kick back to login prompt. I even try to boot at single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). It give me a same error. I did try to log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail. Could anyone please help me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. ............................................................................. ftp does not use the default shell. You could make a good passwd file and ftp it into the right place. Unless you have it set so root cannot ftp in... Jim Meritt >From birger@Vest.Sdata.No Thu Sep 12 15:42:25 1996 Return-Path: Received: from Vest.Sdata.No by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA06781; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:42:17 -0400 Received: from bryggen by Vest.Sdata.No (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id VAA18195; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 21:35:18 +0200 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 21:48:33 +0200 (MET DST) From: "Birger A. Wathne" Reply-To: "Birger A. Wathne" Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user To: Bobby Huynh In-Reply-To: "Your message with ID" <199609121828.OAA06536@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil> Message-ID: Status: UO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: RiPePnx+2hFBWm41daQpqQ== Content-Length: 224 You have to boot from CD or network. And *never* change roots shell from /sbin/sh. This shell is statically linked. If you run into problems and loose your shared libraries, this is the only shell that will work. Birger >From osvaldo@platinum.apexvoice.com Thu Sep 12 15:48:34 1996 Return-Path: Received: from ns.apexvoice.com by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA06792; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:48:29 -0400 Received: from PLATINUM.apexvoice.com by ns.apexvoice.com (5.65/1.35) id AA02413; Thu, 12 Sep 96 10:53:50 -0700 Received: by platinum.apexvoice.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA03233; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 11:57:02 -0700 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 11:57:02 -0700 From: osvaldo@platinum.apexvoice.com (Osvaldo Gold) Message-Id: <199609121857.LAA03233@platinum.apexvoice.com> To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user Status: UO Content-Type: text X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 597 I did the exact same thing and ended up calling SUN for help!!!! Do the following: 1. Go get your boot CDROM or find out how to boot from the network. 2. Type /etc/mount and take note of the device of your root file system. 3. Turn the machine off 4. Boot from the CDROM with "ok> boot cdrom -s" or from the network 5. fsck your root file system 6. Mount root on /mnt 7. Type /mnt/bin/vi /mnt/etc/passwd and fix your command line. 8. unmount /mnt 9. reboot. That (or something very similar to this) should do it. Good luck -- Osvaldo Gold, Apex Voice Communications -- osvaldo@apexvoice.com >From Rasana.Atreya@library.ucsf.edu Thu Sep 12 15:49:14 1996 Return-Path: Received: from library.ucsf.edu by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA06796; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:49:07 -0400 Received: from helios.ckm.ucsf.edu by library.ucsf.edu with SMTP id AA19854 (5.67a8/IDA-1.5 for ); Thu, 12 Sep 1996 12:52:30 -0700 Message-Id: <199609121952.AA19854@library.ucsf.edu > To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (Bobby Huynh) Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:28:09 EDT." <199609121828.OAA06536@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 12:49:35 PDT From: Rasana Atreya Status: UO Content-Type: text X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 1287 When you cannot login to the system even in single user mode, go to ok prompt (stop-a). Then ok boot cdrom -sw (single user and writable incase you want to vi) Then - mount /dev/dsk/ct3d0s0 /a - cd /a/etc Mount point /a is provided on cdrom so that you can attach things to it, since it is read-only. Rasana > Hi al, > > Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for root. I > missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log in as "root" i t > give a message "no shell" and kick back to login prompt. I even try to boot at > single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). It give me a same error. I did try to > log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail. Could anyone please he lp > me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. > > Thank you > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ Rasana Atreya Voice: (415) 476-3623 ~ ~ System Administrator Fax: (415) 476-4653 ~ ~ Library & Ctr for Knowledge Mgnt, Univ. of California at San Francisco ~ ~ 530 Parnassus Ave, Box 0840, San Francisco, CA 94143-0840 ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >From twhite@bear.com Thu Sep 12 15:50:28 1996 Return-Path: Received: from intfw.bear.com by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA06800; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:50:22 -0400 Received: by intfw.bear.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA00730; Thu, 12 Sep 96 15:55:38 EDT Received: from fastbear(165.168.74.3) by intfw via smap (V1.3) id sma000227; Thu Sep 12 15:48:21 1996 Received: from ursa2.bear.com by fastbear.bear.com (4.1/SMI-4.1/1.0 AMR 12/15/94) id AA28529; Thu, 12 Sep 96 15:51:20 EDT Received: from whip_xfr.bear.com (whip-xfr) by ursa2.bear.com (4.1/SMI-4.1/AMR+DJMS(2)) id AA25636; Thu, 12 Sep 96 15:48:59 EDT Received: from wizard.bsnet by whip_xfr.bear.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA03473; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:48:32 -0400 Received: from gryphon.bsnet by wizard.bsnet (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA13762; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:48:32 -0400 Received: by gryphon.bsnet (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA15280; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:48:32 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:48:32 -0400 From: twhite@bear.com (Thomas White) Message-Id: <199609121948.PAA15280@gryphon.bsnet> To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user Status: UO Content-Type: text X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 457 boot from the cdrom - mount the root partition take out the mistake reboot w/out cdrom tw -- ******************************************************************************* Bear Stearns is not responsible for any recommendation, solicitation, offer or agreement or any information about any transaction, customer account or account activity contained in this communication. ******************************************************************************* >From mrs@cadem.mc.xerox.com Thu Sep 12 15:51:57 1996 Return-Path: Received: from alpha.xerox.com by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA06804; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:51:26 -0400 Received: from lurch.cadem.mc.xerox.com ([13.249.32.4]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <15954(5)>; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 12:56:31 PDT Received: from maria (maria.cadem.mc.Xerox.COM) by lurch.cadem.mc.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA24410; Thu, 12 Sep 96 15:57:00 EDT Received: by maria (SMI-8.6/XeroxClient-SVR4-1.3) id PAA01168; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:55:55 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 12:55:55 PDT From: mrs@cadem.mc.xerox.com ("Michael Salehi x22725") Message-Id: <199609121955.PAA01168@maria> To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user Status: UO Content-Type: text X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 1222 >>From sun-managers-relay@ra.mcs.anl.gov Thu Sep 12 15:47 EDT 1996 >>Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 11:28:09 PDT >>From: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (Bobby Huynh) >>To: sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.gov >>Subject: No Shell for supper user >>Mime-Version: 1.0 >>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >>Content-Md5: 2d0k1z/DpL2FkQ8YobLX8Q== >> >>Hi al, >> >>Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for root. I >>missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log in as "root" it >>give a message "no shell" and kick back to login prompt. I even try to boot at >>single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). It give me a same error. I did try to >>log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail. Could anyone please help >>me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. >> >>Thank you >> Unless, you have a privileged window open, or .rhosts are set such that a remote host can copy a new password file over, you need to boot -s from cdrom and go fix it. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Mike (Mehran) Salehi mrs@cadem.mc.xerox.com (716) 422-2725 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >From gj@qsun.ho.att.com Thu Sep 12 15:54:08 1996 Return-Path: Received: from cbgw1.att.com by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA06808; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:54:01 -0400 Received: from qsun.ho.att.com by cbig1.att.att.com (SMI-8.6/EMS-1.2 sol2) id PAA26900; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:53:31 -0400 Received: from qsun2.ho.att.com.qsun2 by qsun.ho.att.com (4.1/EMS-1.1.1 SunOS) id AA02570; Thu, 12 Sep 96 15:58:59 EDT Received: by qsun2.ho.att.com.qsun2 (5.x/EMS-1.2 sol2) id AA22107; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:57:54 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:57:54 -0400 Message-Id: <9609121957.AA22107@qsun2.ho.att.com.qsun2> From: gj@qsun.ho.att.com (George P Josilo) To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (Bobby Huynh) Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user Status: UO Content-Type: text X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 348 what kind of operating system are you using: Solaris? if so you can boot of the cdrom in -s mode. the mount the / dir and edit the /etc/passwd file. this will fix it the full commands are: Stop-A OK boot cdrom -s #mount /dev/dsk/c0t3d0 /a (generic) #TERM=sun #export TERM #vi /etc/passwd - remove offending feald #cd / #umount /a #reboot george >From nsp83273@cae091.ed.ray.com Thu Sep 12 15:54:25 1996 Return-Path: Received: from gatekeeper.ray.com by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA06813; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:54:19 -0400 Received: (mailer@localhost) by gatekeeper.ray.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA10348 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:59:20 -0400 Received: from jaguar.nmc.ed.ray.com by gatekeeper.ray.com; Thu Sep 12 15:58:27 1996 Received: from cae091.ed.ray.com.noname by jaguar.nmc.ed.ray.com (4.1/SMI-4.1-DNI) id AA03536; Thu, 12 Sep 96 15:58:31 EDT Received: from cae012.noname by cae091.ed.ray.com.noname (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA06782; Thu, 12 Sep 96 15:57:37 EDT Date: Thu, 12 Sep 96 15:57:37 EDT From: nsp83273@cae091.ed.ray.com (Neal Pressman ex 2317) Message-Id: <9609121957.AA06782@cae091.ed.ray.com.noname> To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user Status: RO Content-Type: text X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 1983 log in as a normal user ftp to your hostmane as root get /etc/passwd you can now edit it as normal user make you change and ftp it back. just hope you dont have root in /etc/ftpusers or you will not be able to do this... good luck. \\|// (o o) ----------------------------oooO-(_)-Oooo---------------------------- Neal S. Pressman Raytheon Electronic Systems System Administrator (MCAD) 528 Boston Post Road phone: (508) 440-2317 Sudbury, MA 01776 fax: (508) 440-2684 ms 4-1-283 E-mail: nsp@cae091.ed.ray.com ____________________________________Oooo.____________________________ .oooO (___) -> From sun-managers-relay@ra.mcs.anl.gov Thu Sep 12 15:53:05 1996 -> Return-Path: -> Sender: sun-managers-relay@ra.mcs.anl.gov -> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:28:09 -0400 -> From: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (Bobby Huynh) -> Reply-To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (Bobby Huynh) -> Followup-To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (Bobby Huynh) -> To: sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.gov -> Subject: No Shell for supper user -> Mime-Version: 1.0 -> Content-Type-> : -> text/plain-> ; -> charset=US-ASCII-> -> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -> Content-Md5: 2d0k1z/DpL2FkQ8YobLX8Q== -> Precedence: bulk -> Content-Length: 474 -> X-Lines: 10 -> -> Hi al, -> -> Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for root. I -> missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log in as "root" it -> give a message "no shell" and kick back to login prompt. I even try to boot at -> single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). It give me a same error. I did try to -> log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail. Could anyone please help -> me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. -> -> Thank you -> >From gibian@stars1.hanscom.af.mil Thu Sep 12 16:00:20 1996 Return-Path: Received: from hpux2.hanscom.af.mil by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA06826; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:00:16 -0400 Received: from stars1.hanscom.af.mil (stars1.hanscom.af.mil [129.53.46.10]) by hpux2.hanscom.af.mil (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id QAA19961 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:05:36 -0400 Received: from tfs.com by stars1.hanscom.af.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA10246; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:00:36 -0400 Received: from hail.tfs.com by tfs.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA21573; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:07:11 -0400 Received: by hail.tfs.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA15183; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:06:47 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:06:47 -0400 From: gibian@stars1.hanscom.af.mil (Marc S. Gibian) Message-Id: <199609122006.QAA15183@hail.tfs.com> To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user Status: RO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: 1T/Vxj/d2EEe+gH2JbHD/A== Content-Length: 381 boot off media or the network, then fsck and mount the root partition and edit the passwd file. You might be stuck using ed, but its still better than having to re-install or do a restore (from those backups you are running every night). -Marc Marc S. Gibian Telos Consulting Services phone: (617) 377-6350 PRISM/TFS email: gibian@stars1.hanscom.af.mil >From iv08480@issc02.mdc.com Thu Sep 12 16:03:45 1996 Return-Path: Received: from issc02.mdc.com by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA06830; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:03:32 -0400 Received: from WPRT13.MDC.COM by issc02.mdc.com with SMTP (1.38.193.4/16.2) id AA22180; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:08:19 -0500 Received: by wprt13. (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA01838; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:08:52 -0500 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:08:52 -0500 From: iv08480@issc02.mdc.com (Colin Melville) Message-Id: <199609122008.PAA01838@wprt13.> To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user Status: RO Content-Type: text X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 1495 Bobby, Been there, done that! Ain't it great! Boot from CD-ROM single-user mode (boot cdrom -sw). When it comes up, mount the root device to /a. cd /a/etc, vi passwd, change root's shell back, reboot. Colin %)====================================================%) %) Colin Melville | cmelville@mdc.com %) %) UNIX Systems Administrator| NTS Technical Services %) %) UNIX Server Support Team | http://www.ntstech.com %) %) %) %) Contracted to: McDonnell Douglas Aircraft Corp. %) %) http://www.mdc.com %) %)====================================================%) > From sun-managers-relay@ra.mcs.anl.gov Thu Sep 12 14:33 CDT 1996 > Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:28:09 -0400 > From: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (Bobby Huynh) > To: sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.gov > Subject: No Shell for supper user > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Md5: 2d0k1z/DpL2FkQ8YobLX8Q== > > Hi al, > > Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for root. I > missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log in as "root" it > give a message "no shell" and kick back to login prompt. I even try to boot at > single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). It give me a same error. I did try to > log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail. Could anyone please help > me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. > > Thank you > >From catey@wren.geg.mot.com Thu Sep 12 16:03:58 1996 Return-Path: Received: from motgate2.mot.com by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA06835; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:03:51 -0400 Received: from pobox.mot.com (pobox.mot.com [129.188.137.100]) by motgate2.mot.com (8.7.3/8.6.10/MOT-3.8) with ESMTP id TAA01801 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 19:47:45 GMT Received: from motgeg.geg.mot.com (motgeg.geg.mot.com [192.88.158.100]) by pobox.mot.com (8.7.3/8.6.10/MOT-3.8) with SMTP id OAA22124 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:50:59 -0500 (CDT) Received: from wren.geg.mot.com by motgeg.geg.mot.com (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA16212; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 12:43:47 -0700 Received: by wren.geg.mot.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA28719; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 12:50:51 -0700 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 12:50:51 -0700 From: catey@wren.geg.mot.com (Don Catey) Message-Id: <199609121950.MAA28719@wren.geg.mot.com> To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil Subject: Re: No Shell for super user Status: RO Content-Type: text X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 1076 Sounds like you'll have to boot off the CD mini-root. Under 2.5, booting from the CD mounts your root disk under /a, so you can open an xterm and edit /a/etc/passwd and change the shell back. Also, 2.x recommends that the "root" user keeps the Bourne shell, if you want ksh or csh, make a "kroot" or "croot". If you are using 4.x, load and boot the mini-root off the cd. Once you are up, mkdir /mnt and mount your "/" partition (/dev/sd0a), then edit /mnt/etc/passwd and make your changes. Good luck. -------------------------------------------------------------- Don Catey Internet: catey@wren.geg.mot.com Systems Administrator Compuserve: 103533.2772@compuserve.com --------Information Technology Solutions and Support---------- Motorola, Inc. Voice: 602/675-2608 Space & Systems Fax: 602/441-7138 Technology Group 8201 East McDowell Road Any views, thoughts, or opinions M/S H1192 expressed are my own, and are in Scottsdale, AZ 85257 no way those of Motorola, Inc. -------------------------------------------------------------- >From paul@icx.com Thu Sep 12 16:05:23 1996 Return-Path: Received: from icx.com by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA06839; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:05:08 -0400 Received: by icx.com (/\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.2) id ; Thu, 12 Sep 96 13:10 PDT Received: by icx.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.28.1 #28.14) id ; Thu, 12 Sep 96 13:10 PDT Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 12:58:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Paul Kanz To: Bobby Huynh Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user In-Reply-To: <199609121828.OAA06536@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil> Message-ID: Status: RO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: ZpnWvlGWib4VkrLbJ0rcYg== Content-Length: 1624 You've done that too?!? If you're running NIS/NIS+ you're got a chance - otherwise you might be SOL. If running NIS/NIS+: 1. Log into Master or Slave server 2. Add yourself to the group that owns '/sbin' (hoping that /sbin is group writable); push the maps 3. Log into workstation with problem, and then copy 'ksh' into '/sbin'. 4. Logout; login as root and fix the type-o. 5. Go back to NIS server and back out the change. If not running NIS/NIS+: 1. Get six-pack of beer 2. Drink six-pack -Paul On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Bobby Huynh wrote: > Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:28:09 -0400 > From: Bobby Huynh > To: sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.gov > Subject: No Shell for supper user > Followup-To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (Bobby Huynh) > > Hi al, > > Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for root. I > missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log in as "root" it > give a message "no shell" and kick back to login prompt. I even try to boot at > single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). It give me a same error. I did try to > log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail. Could anyone please help > me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. > > Thank you > ______________________________________________________________________________ Paul Kanz System Administrator Interconnectix, Inc. 10220 SW Nimbus Ave, Building K4 Portland, OR 97223 Email: paul@icx.com Phone: 503.684.6641 Fax: 503.639.3469 ______________________________________________________________________________ >From Matt.Sherek@seag.fingerhut.com Thu Sep 12 16:10:51 1996 Return-Path: Received: from dn800e0.fingerhut.com by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA06847; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:10:47 -0400 Received: from dn800e0.fingerhut.com (daemon@localhost) by dn800e0.fingerhut.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) with ESMTP id PAA05381 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:16:16 -0500 (CDT) Received: from seag.fingerhut.com (GF007E0.SEAG.fingerhut.com [151.210.140.7]) by dn800e0.fingerhut.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) with SMTP id PAA05377 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:16:16 -0500 (CDT) Received: from g0103.fingerhut.com by seag.fingerhut.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA12533; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:16:17 -0500 Received: by g0103.fingerhut.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA04786; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:16:08 -0500 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:16:08 -0500 From: Matt.Sherek@seag.fingerhut.com (Matt Sherek) Message-Id: <199609122016.PAA04786@g0103.fingerhut.com> To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user Status: UO Content-Type: text X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 159 You're either going to have to boot from cdrom or from the network, if you use jumpstart, mount the local drive then blank out the password and reboot. Matt >From fierror@roses.rockwell.com Thu Sep 12 16:18:26 1996 Return-Path: Received: from slopok.roses.rockwell.com by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA06856; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:18:18 -0400 Received: by slopok.roses.rockwell.com (5.65/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA27362; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 13:23:45 -0700 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 13:23:45 -0700 From: fierror@roses.rockwell.com (Rebecca Fierro) Message-Id: <9609122023.AA27362@slopok.roses.rockwell.com> To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user Status: UO Content-Type: text X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 296 You will need to boot the system from CD, mount the root partition and change the password file. Becky -- Rebecca Fierro ROSES UNIX Systems Staff Software Engineering and Simulation phone: 310/922-1231 Rockwell - Space Systems Division COMNET: 372-1231 >From springer@aitsun500.tcinc.com Thu Sep 12 16:19:32 1996 Return-Path: Received: from viper-internal.tcinc.com by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA06861; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:19:26 -0400 Received: by viper-internal.tcinc.com; id AA20560; Thu, 12 Sep 96 14:21:58 MDT Received: from peacock(198.178.8.129) by viper.tcinc.com via smap (V3.1.1) id xma020526; Thu, 12 Sep 96 14:21:47 -0600 Received: from aitsun500.tci.com (aitsun500 [165.137.208.132]) by peacock.tcinc.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA05329 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:24:21 -0600 (MDT) Received: by aitsun500.tci.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA27681; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:24:18 -0500 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:24:18 -0500 From: springer@aitsun500.tcinc.com (Jerry Springer) Message-Id: <199609122024.PAA27681@aitsun500.tci.com> To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user Status: UO Content-Type: text X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 1099 you need to boot single user from cdrom, mount the root filesystem manually, and then redit the password file correctly. Jerry Springer Phone: (214) 907-4011 TCI/AIT Fax: (214) 907-4005 1776 North Greenville Ave. Email:springer.jerry@tci.com Richardson,TX 75081 > From bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil Thu Sep 12 14:57:39 1996 > Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:28:09 -0400 > From: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (Bobby Huynh) > To: sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.gov > Subject: No Shell for supper user > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Md5: 2d0k1z/DpL2FkQ8YobLX8Q== > > Hi al, > > Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for root. I > missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log in as "root" it > give a message "no shell" and kick back to login prompt. I even try to boot at > single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). It give me a same error. I did try to > log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail. Could anyone please help > me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. > > Thank you > >From john@starinc.com Thu Sep 12 16:27:57 1996 Return-Path: Received: from starinc.com by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA06866; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:27:39 -0400 Received: by starinc.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA03471; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:32:30 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:32:30 -0400 From: john@starinc.com (John Malick) Message-Id: <199609122032.QAA03471@starinc.com> To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user Status: UO Content-Type: text X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 831 You have to boot from the Solaris CD and mount the root partition to edit the passwd and change it to the right path: Example: Insert CD At the OK prompt: OK boot -sw cdrom After you see a # sign: # mount -F ufs /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0 /a Replace the disk device with the appropriate target for your boot drive and mount it to /a or some other dummy directory. Now change directories to /a/etc and edit vfstab file. Fix the file for root and save the file. Unmount /a. Next halt or crash the system and boot as normal.. Good Luck ************************************ John Malick - Systems Engineering Star Systems Engineering 140 Roosevelt Ave. York, PA. 17404 (717) 854-5911 Phone (717) 852-9421 Fax john@starinc.com Email ************************************ >From mdoshi@guanine.bchs.uh.edu Thu Sep 12 16:30:36 1996 Return-Path: Received: from guanine.bchs.uh.edu by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA06871; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:30:34 -0400 Received: (from mdoshi@localhost) by guanine.bchs.uh.edu (8.7.5/8.7.5) id PAA02126 for bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:35:48 -0500 (CDT) From: Manish Doshi Message-Id: <199609122035.PAA02126@guanine.bchs.uh.edu> Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:35:48 -0500 (CDT) In-Reply-To: <199609121828.OAA06536@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil> from "Bobby Huynh" at Sep 12, 96 02:28:09 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24alpha5] Status: UO Content-Type: text X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 1337 If u have a CDROM media for the UNIX the boot single user from cdrom. (at the boot prompt tye b cdrom (fi ur ROM rev. is 2.x) or b sd(0,6,2) if ur cd rom is on controller 0 and scsi target is 6. Then mount the root partition and change the passwd file. > > Hi al, > > Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for root. I > missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log in as "root" it > give a message "no shell" and kick back to login prompt. I even try to boot at > single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). It give me a same error. I did try to > log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail. Could anyone please help > me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. > > Thank you > -- "To iterate is human, to recurse is divine." - L. Peter Deutsch "The only sure thing about luck: it will change!!" - Anonymous "Who we are never changes. Who we think we are ...does." - Anonymous Manish Doshi, .............. ___ _/| .. __ __ .. ___ _/| ........... 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Email :- mdoshi@uh.edu ph: (408)285-6561 (415)967-3445 (Home) URL: http://www.bchs.uh.edu/~mdoshi >From keith@oz.health.state.mn.us Thu Sep 12 16:34:43 1996 Return-Path: Received: from mail.state.mn.us by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA06876; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:34:32 -0400 Received: from sunny.health.state.mn.us by mail.state.mn.us; Thu, 12 Sep 96 15:39:51 -0500 Received: from mcss (oz) by sunny.health.state.mn.us (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA03047; Thu, 12 Sep 96 15:39:50 CDT Received: from tinman.mcss by mcss (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA10733; Thu, 12 Sep 96 15:40:36 CDT Received: by tinman.mcss (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA09163; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:35:10 -0500 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:35:10 -0500 From: keith@oz.health.state.mn.us (Keith Willenson) Message-Id: <9609122035.AA09163@tinman.mcss> To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user Status: UO Content-Type: text X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 1423 Heheheh! I assume that root is /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0 and that /usr is also on the root partition. You also might want to make sure that /sbin/ksh is in /etc/shells Steps are: 1) boot off cdrom 2) Mount root on /a 3) edit /a/etc/passwd 4) edit /a/etc/shells 5) halt and reboot ok> boot cdrom -sw # mount /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0 /a cd /a/etc /a/usr/ucb/vi passwd /a/usr/ucb/vi shells halt ok> boot HTH, K ----------------------original message below---------------------- > From sun-managers-relay@ra.mcs.anl.gov Thu Sep 12 15:18:18 1996 > Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:28:09 -0400 > From: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (Bobby Huynh) > Reply-To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (Bobby Huynh) > Followup-To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (Bobby Huynh) > To: sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.gov > Subject: No Shell for supper user > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Md5: 2d0k1z/DpL2FkQ8YobLX8Q== > > Hi al, > > Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for root. I > missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log in as "root" it > give a message "no shell" and kick back to login prompt. I even try to boot at > single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). It give me a same error. I did try to > log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail. Could anyone please help > me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. > > Thank you > >From A.Chan@CdnAir.CA Thu Sep 12 16:44:14 1996 Return-Path: Received: from yvrpo.CdnAir.CA by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA06889; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:44:07 -0400 Received: by yvrpo.CdnAir.CA id AA32952 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for ); Thu, 12 Sep 1996 13:47:09 -0700 Received: from jumbo1.me.cdnair.ca(142.147.12.6) by valiant.te.cdnair.ca via smap (V1.3) id sma032949; Thu Sep 12 13:46:42 1996 Received: from falcon.cdnair.ca (falcon.me.CdnAir.CA) by jumbo1.me.CdnAir.CA with SMTP id AA29133 (5.67b/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Thu, 12 Sep 1996 13:50:02 -0700 Received: by falcon.cdnair.ca (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id NAA04636; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 13:50:00 -0700 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 13:50:00 -0700 From: A.Chan@CdnAir.CA (Alan Chan) Message-Id: <199609122050.NAA04636@falcon.cdnair.ca> To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user Status: UO Content-Type: text X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 1669 Hi Bobby, What you need to do now is: - boot CDROM - Mount /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0 (or whatever you / partition is) to a temporary mount point say /a - edit /a/etc/passwd and change the shell back - reboot It is generally not a good idea to change the superuser's shell. The /sbin/sh is a statically linked shell and is different than /bin/sh or /bin/ksh, which are dynamically linked. In the case of a disk crash and you cannot access library files, the /bin/sh or /bin/ksh will fail. ============================================================================== Alan Chan | Phone: 604-279-2900 Canadian Airline International | Fax: 604-279-2905 System Administrator (Contractor) | Email: a.chan@cdnair.ca Alan Chan Consulting Services | ============================================================================== ----- Begin Included Message ----- >From sun-managers-relay@ra.mcs.anl.gov Thu Sep 12 12:03:21 1996 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:28:09 -0400 From: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (Bobby Huynh) To: sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.gov Subject: No Shell for supper user Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Md5: 2d0k1z/DpL2FkQ8YobLX8Q== Hi al, Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for root. I missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log in as "root" it give a message "no shell" and kick back to login prompt. I even try to boot at single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). It give me a same error. I did try to log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail. Could anyone please help me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. Thank you ----- End Included Message ----- >From cayz@del-aware.lib.de.us Thu Sep 12 16:45:11 1996 Return-Path: Received: from del-aware.lib.de.us by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA06894; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:44:59 -0400 Received: from localhost (cayz@localhost) by del-aware.lib.de.us (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id QAA07760 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:50:13 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:50:13 -0400 (EDT) From: James Cayz X-Sender: cayz@del-aware To: Bobby Huynh Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user In-Reply-To: <199609121828.OAA06536@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil> Message-ID: Status: UO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: B7opGAwYxuUrjWo88Rb1Eg== Content-Length: 2072 On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Bobby Huynh wrote: >Hi al, > >Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for root. I >missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log in as "root" it >give a message "no shell" and kick back to login prompt. I even try to boot at >single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). It give me a same error. I did try to >log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail. Could anyone please help >me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. > >Thank you Bobby, I did the exact same thing last month on my solaris 2.5.1 / Netra box. Here are the steps as I wrote them down / did them / got them from my local guru: I can't promise that my re-telling is perfect, but here goes.... "I hope you have the Solaris 2.X CD." (that's supposed to be funny, har har). $ df (to get /'s device name, in this case /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 ) / (/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 ): 96816 blocks 109057 files /proc (/proc ): 0 blocks 884 files /export (/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s6 ): 2874900 blocks 815517 files /tmp (swap ): 133280 blocks 11309 files $ eject CD (to put the CD in.) $ sync;sync;sync (and if you can, shutdown). Press STOP A to get an ok> prompt ok> boot cdrom (wait, wait, wait) When it finally comes up, you are in single user mode. If it asks / starts up any install process, CANCEL! Exit openwin, if you are in it. # mount /mnt /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 (<- or whatever you got above) # cd /mnt (you are now in the / of the hard drive) # cd etc # vi passwd # (fix whatever problems else are left) # sync;sync;sync # init 6 You SHOULD BE ok at this point. Hope this helps James Cayz +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+ [ James Cayz: cayz@lib.de.us # Voice 302-739-4748 x130 / Fax 302-739-6948 ] [ Delaware Division of Libraries # 43 S. DuPont Hwy / Dover, DE 19901-7430 ] +=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ >From liaol@edsug.com Thu Sep 12 16:53:22 1996 Return-Path: Received: from mailer.ug.eds.com by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA06909; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:53:16 -0400 Received: from cysun006 (cysun006.ug.eds.com) by UG.EDS.COM (PMDF V5.0-7 #15834) id <01I9E3HR8YMU000500@UG.EDS.COM>; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 12:26:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 12:31:22 -0700 From: "Louis C. Liao" Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user Sender: liaol@edsug.com To: Bobby Huynh Message-id: <3238650A.39F4@edsug.com> Organization: EDS Unigraphics Division X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4u) References: <199609121828.OAA06536@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil> Status: UO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: LxtLDvbcmb9dpUZbDLTbAg== Content-Length: 1409 Bobby Huynh wrote: > > Hi al, > > Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for root. I > missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log in as "root" it > give a message "no shell" and kick back to login prompt. I even try to boot at > single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). It give me a same error. I did try to > log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail. Could anyone please help > me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. > > Thank you I've done that a couple times. Basically, you have at least 3 options: 1) boot off CDROM, open a command tool window, mount your root drive into some directory (such as /tmp/mnt), and then go vi your passwd file. You may have to get the "vi" binary from your mounted FS. 2) if you used jumpstart, boot your node off the bootserver, then perform the same stuff mentioned in 1). 3) If you have NFS mounted home directory, copy /bin/ksh to your NFS home directory on the file server and then chmod it to 4555, login to the bad node as yourself, run that copied ksh, (possibly needing to do a "su root" afterward), then go ahead and vi your /etc/passwd file. -- +--------------------------------------------------+ | Louis Liao 714-952-6485 liaol@edsug.com | | EDS - Unigraphics, Cypress CA | +--------------------------------------------------+ >From tcsab0@svho1ds_1.supervalu.com Thu Sep 12 16:54:40 1996 Return-Path: Received: from cedar.mr.net by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA06918; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:54:39 -0400 Received: (from root@localhost) by cedar.mr.net (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA18365 for bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:59:32 -0500 (CDT) >Received: from svho1ds_1.supervalu.com by supervalu.com (5.x/SMI-SVR4-SV-1.03) id AA02665; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:58:47 -0500 Received: from internet1 by cedar.mr.net; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:59 CDT Received: from svho1ds_1.supervalu.com by supervalu.com (5.x/SMI-SVR4-SV-1.03) id AA02665; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:58:47 -0500 Received: from svho1as_17.supervalu.com by svho1ds_1.supervalu.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA07864; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:54:44 -0500 Received: by svho1as_17.supervalu.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA03211; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:53:13 -0500 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:53:13 -0500 From: tcsab0@svho1ds_1.supervalu.com (Scott Brooks - CSS) Message-Id: <199609122053.PAA03211@svho1as_17.supervalu.com> To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user Status: UO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: 1eemY7Abmw82iMknfNSC2w== Content-Length: 1896 Bobby, Get a Solaris O/S CD and do a "boot -s cdrom". At the unix prompt, mount the drive that contains /etc/passwd (i.e. /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0). Mount to /a and then cd /a/etc and vi ./passwd file. Save and reboot the system. Good Luck. || __________________\__/__________________________________________________________ -----------------O--O----------------------------------------------------------- O O O 0 Scott Brooks o Sr. Technical Analyst o SuperValu Scott.Brooks@svmail.supervalu.com _\\\_ o (612)828-4216 / o\ o |\/ |> > _____/\____/\ |/\______/ / \ // /\__/ \______ ____________________ __/\-_____-----______/ \________/ > From sun-managers-request Thu Sep 12 14:42 CDT 1996 > >Received: from ra.mcs.anl.gov (ra.mcs.anl.gov [140.221.4.26]) by cedar.mr.net (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA11218 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:24:56 -0500 (CDT) > Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:28:09 -0400 > From: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (Bobby Huynh) > To: sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.gov > Subject: No Shell for supper user > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Md5: 2d0k1z/DpL2FkQ8YobLX8Q== > > Hi al, > > Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for root. I > missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log in as "root" it > give a message "no shell" and kick back to login prompt. I even try to boot at > single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). It give me a same error. I did try to > log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail. Could anyone please help > me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. > > Thank you > >From simdro@sisca.qc.ca Thu Sep 12 17:00:21 1996 Return-Path: Received: from apollo.sisca.net by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id RAA06926; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 17:00:20 -0400 Received: from odyssee.sisca.qc.ca (gemini.sisca.net [204.19.152.3]) by apollo.sisca.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA15205 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 17:06:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from endeavour.sisca.qc.ca (endeavour.sisca.qc.ca [204.19.153.4]) by odyssee.sisca.qc.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA03994 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 17:11:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Simon-Bernard Drolet Received: (from simdro@localhost) by endeavour.sisca.qc.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA03131 for bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 17:11:56 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 17:11:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199609122111.RAA03131@endeavour.sisca.qc.ca> To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user Status: UO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: 3jqvDUXm/a+1tojnXdpmYg== Content-Length: 487 Hi, You have no choice but boot from cdrom, mount the / filsystem on /mnt and edit the /mnt/etc/passwd file. Also, beware that root should not use anything other than /sbin/sh as his login shell because the other shell are not statically linked. Simon. -- Simon-Bernard Drolet E-mail: Simon-Bernard.Drolet@Sisca.qc.ca Analyste systeme No.tel: (819) 564-4003 ext.284 Sisca Inc, Sherbrooke, Quebec No.fax: (819) 569-8597 #include /* http://www.sisca.qc.ca */ >From jasonn@nabaus.com.au Thu Sep 12 17:06:12 1996 Return-Path: Received: from perki0.connect.com.au by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id RAA06931; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 17:06:09 -0400 Received: (from Unabaus@localhost) by perki0.connect.com.au id HAA11479 (8.7.5/IDA-1.6 for bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil); Fri, 13 Sep 1996 07:11:27 +1000 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: perki0.connect.com.au: Unabaus set sender to jasonn@nabaus.com.au using -f >Received: from macduff.nabaus.com. by nabaus.com.au (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id HAA29083; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 07:13:06 +1000 Received: from macduff.nabaus.com. by nabaus.com.au (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id HAA29083; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 07:13:06 +1000 Received: from hamlet.nabaus.com. by macduff.nabaus.com. (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id HAA12848; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 07:09:51 +1000 Received: by hamlet.nabaus.com. (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id HAA12758; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 07:09:24 +1000 Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 07:09:24 +1000 From: jasonn@nabaus.com.au (Jason Noorman) Message-Id: <199609122109.HAA12758@hamlet.nabaus.com.> To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user Status: RO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: JJ2Bn3bFFTIdrgsWmyAD0A== Content-Length: 125 Try booting off CD then mounting the drive with the /etc/passwd file on /mnt then edit the file and reboot. Thanks Jason. >From gmp@adc.com Thu Sep 12 17:22:02 1996 Return-Path: Received: from ingate.adc.com by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id RAA06941; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 17:21:50 -0400 Received: by ingate.adc.com (5.65/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA15196; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:28:03 -0500 Received: from ghandi.YP.sun386i by ohtar (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA13890; Thu, 12 Sep 96 16:28:02 CDT Received: by ghandi.YP.sun386i (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA11285; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:25:54 -0500 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:25:54 -0500 From: gmp@adc.com (Gregory M Polanski) Message-Id: <9609122125.AA11285@ghandi.YP.sun386i> To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user Status: UO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: /6m+o4ovROZIRBBnoPpHKw== Content-Length: 485 Best thing is to boot from distribution CD, almost any version, mount the hard drive / on /mnt and edit /etc/passwd. greg _______________________________________________________________ Greg Polanski greg_polanski@adc.com ADC Telecommunications MS 254 612-946-2270 4900 West 78-th St 612-946-3910 FAX Bloomington, MN 55435 612-580-6873 Pager _______________________________________________________________ >From Daniel.Blander@ACSacs.Com Thu Sep 12 17:49:27 1996 Return-Path: Received: from sprite by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id RAA06955; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 17:49:22 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:54:41 -0700 (PDT) From: "Daniel J Blander - Sr. Systems Engineer for ACS" X-Sender: phaedrus@ferrari To: Bobby Huynh Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user In-Reply-To: <199609121828.OAA06536@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil> Message-ID: Status: RO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: M/fYxrcw8QLpbS0Q6S3Uiw== Content-Length: 1400 Attach a cdrom, at the "ok" prompt type in "boot -s cdrom", "mount /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0 /a", "cd /a/etc", "TERM=sun-cmd", "export TERM", "vi passwd", ":wq!", and reboot..... On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Bobby Huynh wrote: > Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:28:09 -0400 > From: Bobby Huynh > To: sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.gov > Subject: No Shell for supper user > > Hi al, > > Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for root. I > missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log in as "root" it > give a message "no shell" and kick back to login prompt. I even try to boot at > single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). It give me a same error. I did try to > log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail. Could anyone please help > me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. > > Thank you > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Daniel Blander =8^) Sr. Systems Engineer Applied Computer Solutions ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Phone: (714) 842.7800 Fax: (714) 842.8299 Email: Daniel.Blander@acsacs.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Official Applied Computer Solutions Home Page and Tech Tip of the Week: http://www.acsacs.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >From dhzavatson@ucdavis.edu Thu Sep 12 18:20:36 1996 Return-Path: Received: from pandora.ucdavis.edu by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id SAA06968; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 18:20:34 -0400 Received: from localhost by pandora.ucdavis.edu (8.8.Alpha.8/UCD3.6.2) id PAA22979; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:25:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:25:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Dave Zavatson X-Sender: dave@pandora.ucdavis.edu To: Bobby Huynh Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user In-Reply-To: <199609121828.OAA06536@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil> Message-ID: Status: UO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: A8cbZWm0PpCuoSneRPP9pw== Content-Length: 587 On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Bobby Huynh wrote: > Hi al, > > Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for root. I > missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log in as "root" it > give a message "no shell" and kick back to login prompt. I even try to boot at > single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). It give me a same error. I did try to > log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail. Could anyone please help > me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. > boot of the cdrom. mount / as /a. edit /a/etc/passwd -Dave >From sesharao@lsil.com Thu Sep 12 19:20:59 1996 Return-Path: Received: from lsi.lsil.com by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id TAA06991; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 19:20:49 -0400 Received: from mhost.lsil.com (mhost.lsil.com [147.145.69.84]) by lsi.lsil.com with SMTP id QAA04046 (8.6.12/IDA-1.6 for ); Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:26:03 -0700 Received: from asic (asic-n69) by mhost.lsil.com id AA27995 (4.1/SMI-4.1 for bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil); Thu, 12 Sep 96 16:25:52 PDT Received: from dcst35.dc by asic (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA19584; Thu, 12 Sep 96 16:25:51 PDT Received: by dcst35.dc (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA03662; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:25:45 -0700 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:25:45 -0700 From: sesharao@lsil.com (Sesharao Patchipala) Message-Id: <199609122325.QAA03662@dcst35.dc> To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user Status: RO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: ZS76kxHSjSYOwujjWPcRzg== Content-Length: 1125 Use ftp to get the passwd file, correct it, and ftp as root to that system and put the password file back. ftp does not require a shell. > From ra.mcs.anl.gov!sun-managers-relay@mhbs.lsil.com Thu Sep 12 15:36:28 1996 > X-From: Umail1 Thu Sep 12 12:47 PDT 1996 > >Received: from ra.mcs.anl.gov (ra.mcs.anl.gov [140.221.4.26]) by mail1.lsil.com with ESMTP id MAA29663 (8.6.12/IDA-1.6); Thu, 12 Sep 1996 12:41:28 -0700 > Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:28:09 -0400 > From: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (Bobby Huynh) > To: sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.gov > Subject: No Shell for supper user > Content-Md5: 2d0k1z/DpL2FkQ8YobLX8Q== > > Hi al, > > Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for root. I > missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log in as "root" it > give a message "no shell" and kick back to login prompt. I even try to boot at > single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). It give me a same error. I did try to > log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail. Could anyone please help > me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. > > Thank you >From sweh@mpn.com Thu Sep 12 20:18:22 1996 Return-Path: Received: from nebula.mpn.com by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id UAA07019; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 20:18:21 -0400 Received: from mercury.mpn.com by nebula.mpn.com (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA14407; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 01:23:43 +0100 From: sweh@mpn.com (Stephen Harris) Received: by mercury.mpn.com (5.x/Spike-2.0/sweh-1.0) id AA18231; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 01:23:41 +0100 Message-Id: <9609130023.AA18231@mercury.mpn.com> Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 01:23:41 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: <199609121828.OAA06536@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil> from "Bobby Huynh" at Sep 12, 96 02:28:09 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Status: UO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: 0Golh34a90zoDHG+wqJ42w== Content-Length: 274 > log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail. Could anyone please help > me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. Boot single user from CD ("boot cdrom -s"), mount root, fix the error. Shoot self in head for perform imbecile mistake. rgds Stephen >From sckhoo@asiapac.net Thu Sep 12 20:42:39 1996 Return-Path: Received: from gandalf.asiapac.net by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id UAA07029; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 20:42:32 -0400 Received: from klj-7-57.tm.net.my (klj-7-57.tm.net.my [202.188.7.57]) by gandalf.asiapac.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id IAA17901 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 08:30:18 +0800 Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 08:30:18 +0800 Message-Id: <199609130030.IAA17901@gandalf.asiapac.net> X-Sender: sckhoo@mail.asiapac.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (Bobby Huynh) From: Swee-Chuan Khoo Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user Status: UO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: ZbQcINLjMgdU4VIq/MTQQg== Content-Length: 1073 At 02:28 PM 9/12/96 -0400, you wrote: >Hi al, > >Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for root. I >missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log in as "root" it >give a message "no shell" and kick back to login prompt. I even try to boot at >single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). It give me a same error. I did try to >log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail. Could anyone please help >me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. > >Thank you > > bootup from cdrom, mount the root partition and change the /etc/passwd file. easy. :) +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Khoo Swee Chuan ( The Network Connections ) - system administrator | | http://www.asiapac.net/~sckhoo/ sckhoo@asiapac.net | | tel:603-7337757 fax:603-7345577 #include | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ "if you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains - however improbable - must be the truth." >From rmills@atl1.america.net Thu Sep 12 21:20:22 1996 Return-Path: Received: from atl1.america.net by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id VAA07046; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 21:20:17 -0400 Received: (from rmills@localhost) by atl1.america.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA11727 for bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 21:25:14 -0400 (EDT) From: "Richard C. Mills" Message-Id: <199609130125.VAA11727@atl1.america.net> Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 21:25:13 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <199609121828.OAA06536@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil> from "Bobby Huynh" at Sep 12, 96 02:28:09 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Status: UO Content-Type: text X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 300 Hello, Boot off of CD. Then mount the root direcotery and make the necessary changes. Good Luck! Rich -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Richard Mills - rmills@fair.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >From jakem@apex.com Thu Sep 12 21:29:32 1996 Return-Path: Received: from nwnexus.wa.com by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id VAA07052; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 21:29:22 -0400 Received: from apex.com by nwnexus.wa.com with SMTP id AA27291 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for ); Thu, 12 Sep 1996 18:34:09 -0700 Received: from ichy.corp by apex.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA17019; Thu, 12 Sep 96 12:55:49 PDT Date: Thu, 12 Sep 96 12:55:49 PDT From: jakem@apex.com (Jake Mahon) Message-Id: <9609121955.AA17019@apex.com> To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user Status: UO Content-Type: text X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 764 | From sun-managers-relay@ra.mcs.anl.gov Thu Sep 12 12:44:04 1996 | Reply-To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (Bobby Huynh) | Subject: No Shell for supper user | Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for root. I | missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log in as "root" it | give a message "no shell" and kick back to login prompt.I even try to boot at | single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). It give me a same error. I did try to | log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail.Could anyone please help | me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. 1. boot the machine from cdrom 2. mount the /etc partition by hand 3. repair your password file 4. reboot I did this, too! jakem@apex.com >From Christian.Masopust@tmn.sie.siemens.at Fri Sep 13 00:44:54 1996 Return-Path: Received: from zwei.siemens.at by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id AAA07175; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 00:44:49 -0400 Received: from rdserv.sie.siemens.co.at (root@firix [10.1.143.100]) by zwei.siemens.at (8.7.4/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA09986 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 06:49:34 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from tmn.sie.siemens.at (sunserv.tmn.sie.siemens.at [195.1.138.251]) by rdserv.sie.siemens.co.at (8.7/8.7) with SMTP id GAA25145 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 06:45:18 +0200 (MESZ) Received: by tmn.sie.siemens.at (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA08120; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 06:48:00 +0200 Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 06:48:00 +0200 From: Christian.Masopust@tmn.sie.siemens.at (Christian Masopust) Message-Id: <9609130448.AA08120@tmn.sie.siemens.at> To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user Status: RO Content-Type: text X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 1196 > > Hi al, > > Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for root. I > missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log in as "root" it > give a message "no shell" and kick back to login prompt. I even try to boot at > single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). It give me a same error. I did try to > log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail. Could anyone please help > me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. > > Thank you > Hi Bobby, no reason to hang .... you only have to boot from the install-cd, start a cmdtool when openwin is up, mount your root-filesystem to /a (it's on your cd and it's made for mounting the root-filesystem...) and than you can change the login-shell back to /sbin/sh (don't use any other shell!!! they all are dynamically linked and so there is no guaranty that the can work in single user mode !!!) regards Christian -- Christian Masopust | _ | Siemens AG Austria _|___/v\___|_ Christian.Masopust@siemens.at -====(~)=(.*.)=(~)====- Phone/Fax: +43-1-1707-24516 / 53759 `-' >From dsf@Interpath.com Fri Sep 13 01:34:24 1996 Return-Path: Received: from mail-hub.interpath.net by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id BAA07189; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 01:34:22 -0400 Received: from LOCALNAME (raleigh-046.interpath.net [207.59.1.46]) by mail-hub.interpath.net (8.6.12/8.6.14) with SMTP id BAA27820 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 01:38:17 -0400 Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 01:38:17 -0400 Message-Id: <199609130538.BAA27820@mail-hub.interpath.net> X-Sender: dsf@interpath.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (Bobby Huynh) From: dsf@Interpath.com Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user Status: UO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: yL/jEHNFba3dKmjk3Aqy0w== Content-Length: 1051 At 02:28 PM 9/12/96 -0400, you wrote: >Hi al, > >Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for root. I >missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log in as "root" it >give a message "no shell" and kick back to login prompt. I even try to boot at >single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). It give me a same error. I did try to >log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail. Could anyone please help >me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. > >Thank you > > I think you might need to boot from the distribution CD-ROM. Select the shell option instead of the OS install. Once you are at a prompt you should probably fsck your raw boot disk. Next, I think you need to mount your boot disk onto the cd-rom filesystem (called the mini-root I think). You can then "cd" down into your boot disk and edit the "passwd" file. Unmount the boot disk and reboot. I'm not sure I have all the details exactly right, so take my suggestions and combine with others. Good Luck. Dan Freedman >From diarra@ipno.in2p3.fr Fri Sep 13 03:39:59 1996 Return-Path: Received: from ipnosb.in2p3.fr by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id DAA07229; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 03:39:44 -0400 Received: from ipnsub.in2p3.fr (ipnsub [134.158.92.55]) by ipnosb.in2p3.fr (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA13111 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:44:56 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from diarra@localhost) by ipnsub.in2p3.fr (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA22141; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:41:42 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:41:41 +0200 (MET DST) From: Christophe DIARRA To: Bobby Huynh Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user In-Reply-To: <199609121828.OAA06536@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil> Message-ID: Status: UO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: nw9ALbmyQ3H1nfTciRB4uw== Content-Length: 910 Hello, if you have a user in the sysadmin group (group 14) then login as this user and start admintool to modify the root's shell. If you don't have a user in the sysadmin group, boot from the CD-ROM, mount your system disk and edit /etc/passwd. Christophe. *** Christophe DIARRA I.P.N ORSAY 91406 ORSAY Cedex Tel: (16 1) 69 41 65 60 E-mail: diarra@ipno.in2p3.fr *** On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Bobby Huynh wrote: > Hi al, > > Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for root. I > missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log in as "root" it > give a message "no shell" and kick back to login prompt. I even try to boot at > single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). It give me a same error. I did try to > log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail. Could anyone please help > me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. > > Thank you > >From uvaghela@mpc-uk.com Fri Sep 13 04:13:03 1996 Return-Path: Received: from one2one.mpc-uk.com by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id EAA07246; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 04:13:00 -0400 Received: from alcatraz.mpc-uk.com (mailhost.mpc-uk.com) by one2one.mpc-uk.com (5.0/one2one-1.9) id AA29928; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:13:57 +0100 Received: from virgin.mpc-uk.com by alcatraz.mpc-uk.com (5.0/one2one-1.9) id AA11526; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:19:17 +0100 Received: by virgin.mpc-uk.com (SMI-8.6/one2one-1.9) id JAA11366; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:19:30 +0100 Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:19:30 +0100 From: uvaghela@mpc-uk.com (Umesh Vaghela) Message-Id: <199609130819.JAA11366@virgin> To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user Status: UO Content-Type: text X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 1804 Hi, There are two options you can use: 1) Boot from CD-ROM and mount your system disk onto /mnt and edit the file /mnt/etc/passwd which is your system passwd file and reboot from the system disk, OR 2) make a copy of the original passwd file as an ordinary user and then via ftp replace the original passwd file with a minimal passwd file with root passwd entry blank. Now you'll be login as root without passwd, fix the original copy of the passwd file that you had saved and put it back in /etc directory. I hope this helps. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Umesh Vaghela E-mail: umesh.vaghela@mpc-uk.com Senior Unix Systems Analyst Tel: +44 181 214 3357 Network Services Fax: +44 181 214 2278 One-2-One / Mercury Elstree Tower, Elstree Way, Borehamwood, Herts., WD6 1DT, UK. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > From sun-managers-relay@ra.mcs.anl.gov Thu Sep 12 20:26 BST 1996 > Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:28:09 -0400 > From: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (Bobby Huynh) > To: sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.gov > Subject: No Shell for supper user > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Md5: 2d0k1z/DpL2FkQ8YobLX8Q== > > Hi al, > > Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for root. I > missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log in as "root" it > give a message "no shell" and kick back to login prompt. I even try to boot at > single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). It give me a same error. I did try to > log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail. Could anyone please help > me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. > > Thank you > >From john.p.avery@tva.gov Fri Sep 13 08:06:18 1996 Return-Path: Received: from info.tva.gov by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA07393; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 08:06:12 -0400 Received: from topaz.cha.tva.gov by info.tva.gov (SMI-8.6/TVA-info.960408) id IAA26848; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 08:11:48 -0400 Received: (from oracle@localhost) by topaz.cha.tva.gov (8.7.5/8.7.3/tva.topaz) id IAA15851 for bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 08:11:31 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 08:11:31 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199609131211.IAA15851@topaz.cha.tva.gov> From: "X7NX2.TVA.GOV(John Avery)" To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user X-Orcl-Application: In-Reply-To: SMTP.TVA.GOV:sun-managers-relay@ra.mcs.anl.gov's message of 12-Sep-96 14:28 Status: UO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed;boundary=4b7c_729f-5b6_7101-dda_4293 Content-Length: 1040 --4b7c_729f-5b6_7101-dda_4293 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: 7Smn/u9qkdVmFUD7edVMBw== Bobby, Been their done that. Boot from CD. Exit before disk is partitioned. Mount /dev/dsk/c0t?d0s0 to /a and edit the passwd file. Then reboot. John Avery ph 751-2513 pgr 10834 send internet mail to: x7nx2@tva.gov FAX: (615) 751-8930 --4b7c_729f-5b6_7101-dda_4293 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: +F/F8kDfF8/0w7ePpiMErg== Hi al, Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for root. I missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log in as "root" it give a message "no shell" and kick back to login prompt. I even try to boot at single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). It give me a same error. I did try to log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail. Could anyone please help me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. Thank you --4b7c_729f-5b6_7101-dda_4293-- >From kstype@bani.com Fri Sep 13 08:13:19 1996 Return-Path: Received: from m.bani.COM by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA07402; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 08:13:18 -0400 Received: from bani.com (banigw2.bani.COM [192.204.32.210]) by m.bani.COM (8.7.1/8.7.1) with ESMTP id IAA11078 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 08:40:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from neon.bani.com (neon [204.170.162.145]) by bani.com (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id IAA12888 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 08:16:47 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <32394FD8.C46@bani.com> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 08:13:12 -0400 From: Kurt Stype Reply-To: kstype@bani.com Organization: Bell Atlantic Network Integration X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) To: Bobby Huynh Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user References: <199609121828.OAA06536@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil> Status: UO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: RLQbl4pI87gwY7skNBgyRg== Content-Length: 1263 Bobby Huynh wrote: > > Hi al, > > Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for root. I > missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log in as "root" it > give a message "no shell" and kick back to login prompt. I even try to boot at > single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). It give me a same error. I did try to > log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail. Could anyone please help > me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. > > Thank you You will need to boot from cdrom in single user mode: ok> boot cdrom -s and once it reboots, fsck and mount the root partition from the harddrive to your /a partition on the crom drive: # fsck /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s0 fsck runs.......FYI, your device may not be target 3 (t3) it could be target 0 (t0). # mount /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0 /a it mounts......(hopefully) then simply cd to the /etc directory on the harddrive: # cd /a/etc and vi the /etc/password file and correct the shell path. This should do it, just reboot at this point and you should be able to login as root. Kurt Stype Administrator, WEB Services Bell Atlantic Network Integration 52 East Swedesford Road Frazer, PA 19355 Email: kstype@bani.com WWW: http://www.bani.com >From seanm@sybase.com Fri Sep 13 08:54:40 1996 Return-Path: Received: from halon.sybase.com by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA07426; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 08:54:34 -0400 Received: from smtp1.sybase.com (sybgate) by halon.sybase.com (5.x/SMI-SVR4/SybFW4.0) id AA24730; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:20:37 -0700 Received: from moxie.sybase.com by smtp1.sybase.com (4.1/SMI-4.1/SybH3.5-030896) id AA03187; Thu, 12 Sep 96 15:18:56 PDT Received: by moxie.sybase.com (5.x/SMI-SVR4/SybEC3.5) id AA12290; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 18:19:05 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 18:19:05 -0400 From: seanm@sybase.com (Sean McInerney) Message-Id: <9609122219.AA12290@moxie.sybase.com> To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user Status: UO Content-Type: text X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 638 Boot from cdrom and mount the root on /a. vi from there. Reboot. > From sun-managers-relay@ra.mcs.anl.gov Thu Sep 12 15:11 EDT 1996 > > Hi al, > > Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for root. I > missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log in as "root" it > give a message "no shell" and kick back to login prompt. I even try to boot at > single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). It give me a same error. I did try to > log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail. Could anyone please help > me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. > > Thank you > >From js@cctechnol.com Fri Sep 13 08:59:11 1996 Return-Path: Received: from kraken.cctechnol.com by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA07431; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 08:59:01 -0400 Received: by kraken.cctechnol.com (Smail3.1.28.1 #3) id m0v1JM1-0008qcC; Thu, 12 Sep 96 16:31 CDT Message-Id: Date: Thu, 12 Sep 96 16:31 CDT To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil In-reply-to: <199609121828.OAA06536@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil> (bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil) Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user Reply-to: js@cctechnol.com From: js@cctechnol.com (Johnie Stafford) X-URL: http://www.cctechnol.com/~js X-Sender: js@kraken Organization: C & C Technologies, Inc., Lafayette, LA Status: UO Content-Type: text X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 1139 >>> On Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:28:09 -0400, bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (Bobby Huynh) said: bh> Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for root. I bh> missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log in as "root" it bh> give a message "no shell" and kick back to login prompt. I even try to boot at bh> single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). It give me a same error. I did try to bh> log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail. Could anyone please help bh> me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. Still got that install CD? 'boot -s cdrom'. Then mount the root partition on /mnt and edit /mnt/etc/passwd. Johnie ============================================================================== Johnie Stafford, System Administrator * Phone: (318) 261-0660 C & C Technologies, Inc. * Fax: (318) 261-0192 730 East Kaliste Saloom Rd * E-mail: js@cctechnol.com Lafayette, LA 70508 * URL: http://www.cctechnol.com ============================================================================== >From donf@brother.com Fri Sep 13 09:01:43 1996 Return-Path: Received: from brother.com by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA07443; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:01:36 -0400 Received: from brother.com by brother.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA01971; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:17:21 -0400 Received: from brother.com by brother.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA16039; Thu, 12 Sep 96 15:19:03 CDT Date: Thu, 12 Sep 96 15:19:03 CDT From: donf@brother.com (DON FREELEY) Message-Id: <9609122019.AA16039@brother.com> To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user Status: UO Content-Type: text X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 1248 I did this myself once. Not that I'll admit it in public though what you need to do boot from the cd to single user then mount the root partition on a temp dir then go edit the file. > From sun-managers-relay@ra.mcs.anl.gov Thu Sep 12 14:10:47 1996 > Sender: sun-managers-relay@ra.mcs.anl.gov > Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:28:09 -0400 > From: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (Bobby Huynh) > Reply-To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (Bobby Huynh) > Followup-To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (Bobby Huynh) > To: sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.gov > Subject: No Shell for supper user > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type> : > text/plain> ; > charset=US-ASCII> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Md5: 2d0k1z/DpL2FkQ8YobLX8Q== > Content-Length: 474 > > Hi al, > > Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for root. I > missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log in as "root" it > give a message "no shell" and kick back to login prompt. I even try to boot at > single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). It give me a same error. I did try to > log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail. Could anyone please help > me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. > > Thank you > >From kwong@solar.acast.nova.edu Fri Sep 13 09:30:29 1996 Return-Path: Received: from solar.acast.nova.edu by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA07458; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:30:27 -0400 Received: by solar.acast.nova.edu (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA14252; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:34:42 -0400 From: kwong@solar.acast.nova.edu (James Kwong) Message-Id: <199609131334.JAA14252@solar.acast.nova.edu> Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:34:40 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <199609121828.OAA06536@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil> from "Bobby Huynh" at Sep 12, 96 02:28:09 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Status: UO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: 17JHPnwd1fx4aPapHnX5zA== Content-Length: 621 You can try ftp to your machine, login as root, and upload a corrected password file to /etc. Hope this helps, -James. > > Hi al, > > Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for root. I > missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log in as "root" it > give a message "no shell" and kick back to login prompt. I even try to boot at > single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). It give me a same error. I did try to > log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail. Could anyone please help > me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. > > Thank you >From kowen@aip.org Fri Sep 13 09:39:48 1996 Return-Path: Received: from aip.org by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA07468; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:39:37 -0400 Received: by nirvana (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id OAA15082; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:56:56 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:56:56 -0400 From: kowen@aip.org (Kenn Owen) Message-Id: <199609121856.OAA15082@nirvana> To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user Status: UO Content-Type: text X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 459 The easiest way to fix this is to boot off of the cd-rom and as soon as the install screen comes up to right click on the workspace and open a console window. Then mount the disk with the regular /etc to /mnt and vi the passwd file back to the proper shell and save it. Then type reboot in the console window and login as root when the login prompt comes up. Kenn Owen Systems Administrator kowen@aip.org American Institute of Physics 516-576-2238 >From MHILL@graver.com Fri Sep 13 10:08:19 1996 Return-Path: Received: from relay3.smtp.psi.net by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id KAA07494; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 10:08:06 -0400 Received: from mailhost.graver.com by relay3.smtp.psi.net (8.7.5/SMI-5.4-PSI) id KAA05680; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 10:12:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from S1/SpoolDir by mailhost.graver.com (Mercury 1.21); 13 Sep 96 10:16:03 -0400 Received: from SpoolDir by S1 (Mercury 1.21); 13 Sep 96 10:15:35 -0400 From: "Matt Hill" Organization: The Graver Company To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (Bobby Huynh) Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 10:09:11 EST Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.23) Message-ID: Status: UO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: uGFHV8WIIBLXLMUyekhb1g== Content-Length: 1327 no way around this. unless you have some sort of 'back door' to root access (like a suid root shell lying around or something) then your system is hosed. what you need to do is boot the system some other way, such as from the install CD, and then mount your hard drive onto /mnt or something, then go in and vi the passwd file to correct it. if you're running sunos 5.x, then the cd that comes with it is very nice to do this. just put it in the drive, halt the system, do 'boot cdrom' at the ok prompt, and away you go. > Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:28:09 -0400 > From: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (Bobby Huynh) > Reply-to: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (Bobby Huynh) > To: sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.gov > Subject: No Shell for supper user > Hi al, > > Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for root. I > missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log in as "root" it > give a message "no shell" and kick back to login prompt. I even try to boot at > single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). It give me a same error. I did try to > log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail. Could anyone please help > me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. > > Thank you > -- Matthew J. Hill hill@graver.com >From mark@dbs-mia.com Fri Sep 13 10:23:19 1996 Return-Path: Received: from fosters.dbs-mia.com by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id KAA07504; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 10:23:17 -0400 Received: by fosters.dbs-mia.com with Microsoft Exchange (IMC 4.0.837.3) id <01BBA15F.E6544CB0@fosters.dbs-mia.com>; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 10:39:54 -0400 Message-ID: From: Mark Sherman To: "'bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil'" Subject: RE: No Shell for supper user Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 10:39:49 -0400 Return-Receipt-To: X-Mailer: Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.0.837.3 Status: UO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: 3l11FYiKQh4UEQUAhIxLyA== Content-Length: 946 Try booting single user mode from the cdrom. Then mount the root directory (/dev/dsk/cxtxdxsx) and edit the /etc/passwd file to reflect the correct shell for root. Reboot. Mark Sherman Systems Engineer Digital Business Systems mark@dbs-mia.com >---------- >From: > bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil[SMTP:bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil] >Sent: Thursday, September 12, 1996 2:28 PM >To: sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.gov >Subject: No Shell for supper user > >Hi al, > >Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for >root. I >missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log in as >"root" it >give a message "no shell" and kick back to login prompt. I even try to >boot at >single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). It give me a same error. I did >try to >log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail. Could anyone >please help >me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. > >Thank you > >From gokhan@gantek.com.tr Fri Sep 13 11:04:42 1996 Return-Path: Received: from jaguar by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA07565; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 11:02:12 -0400 Received: by jaguar (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id RAA07546; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 17:56:32 +0300 Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 17:56:32 +0300 From: gokhan@gantek.com.tr (Gokhan ERDEM) Message-Id: <199609131456.RAA07546@jaguar> To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user Status: UO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: jTNHDrijkEhLhEDa6WdoTg== Content-Length: 227 You have to boot from Solaris CD. 1- boot cdrom -s 2- #TERM=sun 3- #export TERM 4- #mount /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0 /a 'mount root partition' 5- #vi /mnt/etc/passwd 6- Change /sbin/ksh to /bin/sh 7- reboot the machine Gokhan ERDEM >From GOBBERS@artus.faw.uni-ulm.de Fri Sep 13 11:38:16 1996 Return-Path: <<@listserv.gmd.de:GOBBERS@ARTUS.FAW.UNI-ULM.DE>> Received: from listserv.gmd.de by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA07580; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 11:38:06 -0400 Message-Id: <199609131538.LAA07580@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil> Received: from vm.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <2.AD525462@listserv.gmd.de>; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 9:16:14 +0200 Received: from ARTUS.FAW.UNI-ULM.DE (NJE origin MAILER@DULFAW1A) by VM.GMD.DE (LMail V1.2b/1.8b) with BSMTP id 2174; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:16:13 +0200 Received: from artus.faw.uni-ulm.de (NJE origin GOBBERS@DULFAW1A) by ARTUS.FAW.UNI-ULM.DE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 2619; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:16:36 +0000 Date: Fri, 13 Sep 96 09:16:08 MEZ From: Dieter Gobbers Organization: Research Institute for Applied Knowledge Processing at the U. Ulm Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user To: Bobby Huynh In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:28:09 -0400 Status: UO Content-Type: text X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 59 Try to replace the passwd file via ftp. Greetings, Dieter >From cherub@lava.net Fri Sep 13 13:51:55 1996 Return-Path: Received: from malasada.lava.net by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id NAA07661; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 13:51:45 -0400 Received: from ohia014.lava.net [204.151.144.54] by malasada.lava.net with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #9) id m0v1cU6-000AKVC; Fri, 13 Sep 96 07:56 WET Date: Fri, 13 Sep 96 07:56 WET Message-Id: <1.5.4.16.19960913073654.2847bdd8@lava.net> X-Sender: cherub@lava.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (16) To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (Bobby Huynh) From: AO Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user Status: UO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: t+PmZFyogZnPfc4i/7sxPQ== Content-Length: 1060 Bobby; If you have a System CDROM you are in luck. a. Insert your CDROM. From the OK prompt (Stop-A prompt) b. type : boot CDROM -s this will bring your system up into single user mode from your CDROM. No password requried. c. Now type: mount /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0 /a This will mount your hard disk root partition. d. type cd /a/etc this will place you into your harddisk etc directory e. Edit your passwd file with vi and reboot your system from your harddisk. At 02:28 PM 9/12/96 -0400, you wrote: >Hi al, > >Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for root. I >missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log in as "root" it >give a message "no shell" and kick back to login prompt. I even try to boot at >single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). It give me a same error. I did try to >log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail. Could anyone please help >me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. > >Thank you > > EFN, CIAO!, Angel >From matthew.stier@imonics.com Fri Sep 13 14:30:47 1996 Return-Path: Received: from laptev.imonics.com by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id OAA07677; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 14:30:42 -0400 Received: from mage.imonics.com (mage [205.139.208.41]) by laptev.imonics.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA19069 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 14:36:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Matthew Stier - BSG Corporation Received: by mage.imonics.com (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA01128; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 14:36:04 -0400 Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 14:36:04 -0400 Message-Id: <9609131836.AA01128@mage.imonics.com> To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user Status: RO Content-Type: text X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 1710 Boot off CDROM, or over the network, (ie: jumpstart, but don't actually install a new OS) and mount the root partition and edit /etc/passwd. Note: I personally consider changing the default shell from /sbin/sh to any thing else, an act of stupidity. Root is given /sbin/sh as the default shell for a reason. It is the only "STATICALLY" linked shell on the system, and is not dependent upon /usr. Good luck trying to recover on a major crash. Note: You may run into a shell behavior difference switching shells, which may introduce nuances you don't expect. Question? What is the matter with spawning your favorite shell once you assume root. I do it all the time. -- Matthew.Stier@imonics.com | Unix Systems Administrator | BSG Corporation | "Wisconsin Escapee" Cary, NC 27511, (919) 461-6000 | > From sun-managers-relay@ra.mcs.anl.gov Thu Sep 12 21:31:35 1996 > Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:28:09 -0400 > From: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (Bobby Huynh) > To: sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.gov > Subject: No Shell for supper user > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-MD5: 2d0k1z/DpL2FkQ8YobLX8Q== > > Hi al, > > Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for root. I > missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log in as "root" it > give a message "no shell" and kick back to login prompt. I even try to boot at > single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). It give me a same error. I did try to > log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail. Could anyone please help > me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. > > Thank you > >From ugur@best.com.tr Fri Sep 13 17:03:10 1996 Return-Path: Received: from piper.best.com.tr by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id RAA07732; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 17:02:53 -0400 Received: from ugur.best.com.tr (pppnode1.best.com.tr) by best.com.tr (4.1/IDA-1.4) id AA01298; Sat, 14 Sep 96 00:12:28 +0300 Date: Sat, 14 Sep 96 00:12:28 +0300 Message-Id: <9609132012.AA01298@piper.best.com.tr> X-Sender: ugur@best.com.tr X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (Bobby Huynh) From: Ugur Ayfer Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user Status: RO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: MxyV1dlK2PAvnxquKXsuFQ== Content-Length: 1151 At 14:28 12.09.1996 -0400, you wrote: >Hi al, > >Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for root. I >missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log in as "root" it >give a message "no shell" and kick back to login prompt. I even try to boot at >single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). It give me a same error. I did try to >log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail. Could anyone please help >me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. > >Thank you > Theere a few ways that I know can help you around this problem 1. If your wks is on a TCP/IP net and IF you have root access to another workstation which is ALREADY mentioned in the /etc/hosts.equiv file of this specific workstation; then you can rcp a good passwd file . 2. If not, or this seems too complicated for you you might choose a more straightforward solution : boot the wks up from CD or tape. mount the disks root directory to any place you want in your miniroot. use any editor to edit the passwd file on the monted partition. If you need more details I might ber help to you Regards Ugur Ayfer > >From charles@calfp.co.uk Fri Sep 13 17:23:40 1996 Return-Path: Received: from relay-4.mail.demon.net by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id RAA07742; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 17:23:33 -0400 Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([(null)]) by relay-4.mail.demon.net id bg03359; 13 Sep 96 10:18 GMT Received: from calfp.demon.co.uk ([158.152.70.168]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa21598; 13 Sep 96 8:19 BST Received: from pauillac.calfp.uk by brouilly.calfp.co.uk (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA02854; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 08:18:57 +0100 Received: from irancy.calfp.uk by pauillac.calfp.uk (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA19818; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 08:18:53 +0100 Received: by irancy.calfp.uk (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA01502; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 08:18:50 +0100 Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 08:18:50 +0100 From: Charles Best Message-Id: <199609130718.IAA01502@irancy.calfp.uk> To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user Status: RO Content-Type: text X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 76 - boot from a cd or net - cd to /a/etc - edit the passwd file - reboot >From u00y0123@hsc.hac.com Fri Sep 13 17:26:02 1996 Return-Path: Received: from igate1.hac.com by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id RAA07747; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 17:26:01 -0400 From: u00y0123@hsc.hac.com Received: from hacgate.es.hac.com ([147.17.50.21]) by igate1.hac.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA11522; Fri, 13 Sep 96 14:31:32 PDT Received: from hscw449.hsc.hac.com (X-147-17-11-46.ES.HAC.COM) by hacgate.es.hac.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA05608; Fri, 13 Sep 96 14:31:25 PDT Organization: Hughes Space and Communications Company Received: by hscw449.hsc.hac.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA04555; Fri, 13 Sep 96 14:32:35 PDT Date: Fri, 13 Sep 96 14:32:35 PDT Message-Id: <9609132132.AA04555@hscw449.hsc.hac.com> To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user Status: RO Content-Type: text X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Content-Length: 1436 > From sun-managers-relay@ra.mcs.anl.gov Thu Sep 12 12:33:58 1996 > Organization: Hughes Space and Communications Company > Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:28:09 -0400 > From: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (Bobby Huynh) > Subject: No Shell for supper user > Sender: sun-managers-relay@ra.mcs.anl.gov > To: sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.gov > Reply-To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (Bobby Huynh) > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type> : > text/plain> ; > charset=US-ASCII> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Md5: 2d0k1z/DpL2FkQ8YobLX8Q== > Followup-To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (Bobby Huynh) > Content-Length: 474 > > Hi al, > > Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for root. I > missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log in as "root" it > give a message "no shell" and kick back to login prompt. I even try to boot at > single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). It give me a same error. I did try to > log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail. Could anyone please help > me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. > > Thank you > Hi Bobby - The problem is still in your passwd file... first, make sure you have /bin/ksh, but if you still have problems, reedit your passwd file and manually type in the root acct record. Sometimes a strange invisible character is there and the system will say: "no shell"... >Les Greene >Hughes Space and Comm >From cs911089@ariel.cs.yorku.ca Fri Sep 13 22:15:14 1996 Return-Path: Received: from red.ariel.cs.yorku.ca by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id WAA07832; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 22:15:13 -0400 Received: by ariel.cs.yorku.ca (8.6.12/YU_CS_869.1.2.Ariel) id WAA21498; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 22:20:28 -0400 Received: from blue by red with SMTPD id <21497>; Fri, 13 September 1996 22:20:28 2000 Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 22:20:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Jason Keltz X-Sender: cs911089@blue To: Bobby Huynh Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user In-Reply-To: <199609121828.OAA06536@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil> Message-ID: Status: RO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: jBGOoT4RkHf5SJHnXyljgg== Content-Length: 849 On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Bobby Huynh wrote: > Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for root. I > missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log in as "root" it > give a message "no shell" and kick back to login prompt. I even try to boot at > single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). It give me a same error. I did try to > log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail. Could anyone please help > me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. Simply boot from cdrom: boot -s cdrom The cdrom has it's own blank password file so you'll be able to login without a problem. Next, fsck and mount the root filesystem into /mnt (the cdrom contains both /mnt and /a as mount points). Make the change in /etc/password, reboot, and you're back in business... Jason Keltz jas@cs.yorku.ca >From milt@iqsc.com Sat Sep 14 06:00:22 1996 Return-Path: Received: from IQSC.COM by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id GAA08031; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 06:00:20 -0400 Received: from walker.iqsc.com by IQSC.COM with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0v1rcK-000RZ5C; Sat, 14 Sep 96 06:06 EDT Received: by walker.iqsc.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0v1rdV-00031YC; Sat, 14 Sep 96 06:07 EDT Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 06:07:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Milt Webb X-Sender: milt@walker To: Bobby Huynh Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user In-Reply-To: <199609121828.OAA06536@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil> Message-ID: Status: RO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: bwGFl0zdep6fENGYxco1LA== Content-Length: 825 On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Bobby Huynh wrote: > Hi al, > > Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for root. I > missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log in as "root" it > give a message "no shell" and kick back to login prompt. I even try to boot at > single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). It give me a same error. I did try to > log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail. Could anyone please help > me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. > > Thank you > Boot from a CD, mount the hard drive and edit the passwd file. Only way I know to fix it. If you need exact examples to do this let me know. Milt Webb, IQ Software Corp. Some people drink from the fountain of life, while others just rinse and spit. -- anonymous >From hwe@uebemc.siemens.de Sat Sep 14 08:57:03 1996 Return-Path: Received: from isar.uebemc.siemens.de by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA08079; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 08:49:12 -0400 Received: from uebemc.siemens.de ([132.29.3.155]) by isar.uebemc.siemens.de (4.1/isar V1.2 for bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil) id AA29447; Fri, 13 Sep 96 09:52:13 +0200 Received: from rahel by uebemc.siemens.de (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA01006; Fri, 13 Sep 96 09:52:11 +0200 Received: from ingrid.emc by rahel (5.0/Solaris2-Server 0.9) id AA21031; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:53:36 +0200 Received: by ingrid.emc (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA23023; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:53:38 +0200 Message-Id: <199609130753.JAA23023@ingrid.emc> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: bobby@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (Bobby Huynh) Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:28:09 MET DST." <199609121828.OAA06536@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:53:38 +0200 From: Herbert Wengatz Status: RO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: NBuRfyCVsioDTQoya+z8rA== Content-Length: 1143 +> Hi al, +> +> Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for root. I +> missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log in as "root" it +> give a message "no shell" and kick back to login prompt. I even try to boot at +> single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). It give me a same error. I did try to +> log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail. Could anyone please help +> me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. +> +> Thank you Boot your system from CD. - Then stop the installation and mount your regular root parttion. Go to the etc-directory and change the hosts, umount, reboot, ready. Reagrds, Herbert BTW: What is a supper user ? A special guest you only invite for supper ? ;-) _____________________________________________________________________ Herbert Wengatz, 81375 Munich |Disclaim: This Mail is my own opinion, Office :hwe@uebemc.siemens.de |not that of my company. Private:hwe@rtfact.muc.de | http://www.muc.de/~hwe/rtfact "Excellence is a moving target." ------ Hiroshima '45 ---- Chernobyl '86 ---- Windows '95 ------------ >From yangsf@mail.netchina.co.cn Mon Sep 16 04:35:08 1996 Return-Path: Received: from mail.netchina.co.cn by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id EAA08862; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 04:34:50 -0400 Received: from hyper ([202.4.142.168]) by mail.netchina.co.cn (Netscape Mail Server v1.1) with SMTP id AAA19634 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 15:11:13 +0900 Sender: yangsf@netchina.co.cn (yangsf) Message-ID: <323CEFCA.1D24@mail.netchina.co.cn> Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 14:12:26 +0800 From: Yang Sanfu X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) To: Bobby Huynh Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user References: <199609121828.OAA06536@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil> Status: RO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: p/C96GgqgrGCQo8wJoEKEA== Content-Length: 617 Bobby Huynh wrote: > > Hi al, > > Somehow I edit /etc/passwd to change current setting shell to ksh for root. I > missed typing /sbin/ksh instead of /bin/ksh. as soon as I log in as "root" it > give a message "no shell" and kick back to login prompt. I even try to boot at > single user (ok> boot -s or boot -S). It give me a same error. I did try to > log in as moral user and su to root but it also fail. Could anyone please help > me with this. My teammate is going to hang me soon. > > Thank you My solution is, ok boot cdrom -s #mount /dev/... /a #cd /a/etc/ #vi passwd #umount /a #reboot Good luck >From huikomix@dt.com.hk Mon Sep 16 04:43:15 1996 Return-Path: Received: from hk.super.net by c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id EAA08871; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 04:43:12 -0400 Received: from dt.com.hk (dt.com.hk [202.64.175.130]) by hk.super.net (8.7.5/8.7.1) with SMTP id QAA13361 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 16:48:28 +0800 (HKT) Received: from cyinet by dt.com.hk (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA07550; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 16:48:13 +0800 Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 16:48:12 +0800 (HKT) From: "Xu, Guo Miao (Hui, Kwok Miu)" X-Sender: huikomix@cyinet To: Bobby Huynh Subject: Re: No Shell for supper user In-Reply-To: <199609121828.OAA06536@c2sism1.monmouth.army.mil> Message-Id: Status: RO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: pReBp3gnXRn7RUf0PY66iw== Content-Length: 115 You may boot your system from CD-ROM and mount the root file system and modify '/etc/passwd'. Best Regards,