Locked myself out.. AGAIN!!

[Glen Barber]

On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 5:04 AM, Redd Vinylene <reddvinylene at gmail.com> wrote:
> On this dedicated box here I made the mistake of adding a comment to
> root's entry in my password file:
>
> root:*:0:0::/root:/bin/sh # What I thought would be a harmless comment.
>

This is why you shouldn't edit password files directly.

> Now I can't su to root. And my ISP is closed on Sundays. Is there any
> way I can fix this on my own?
>

Do you have sudo installed?  If not, your only other option is to boot
into single user mode.  But that won't help if you're not at the
console.


-- 
Glen Barber


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