how to change roots shell

Andy Greenwood greenwood.andy at gmail.com
Thu May 18 11:45:44 PDT 2006


can you not link /bin/sh to change?

On 5/18/06, Izwan Mohd <zuan at mylinux.net.my> wrote:
> Hope you have "sudo" you can do "sudo -u root bash" if don't nothing
> came cross my mine yet how to deal with it :-\
>
> unixforums 1 wrote:
>
> > tried it and i get the following error:
> >
> > su: change: No such file or directory
> >
> > What happened originally is I accidently changed the shell to "change"
> > and now i get the following error when I su.
> >
> > su: change: No such file or directory
> >
> > This is a remote system so if at all possable i need to do it through ssh.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > */Izwan Mohd <zuan at mylinux.net.my>/* wrote:
> >
> >     unixforums 1 wrote:
> >
> >     >Hi,
> >     > I did a completely newbie move and changed the root�s shell to
> >     something that doesn�t work. So, needless to say now I can�t
> >     su to root or even login as root. Is there a way I can fix this
> >     without rebuilding the server?
> >     >
> >     > Thanks for any help you can provide.
> >     >
> >     >
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> >     su root -c chsh root
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