Re: root shell not found

On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 11:40 -0800, Jeff wrote:
I got a laptop with fedora on it, assumed it was installed with all
the
'normal' shells but apparently it was not. I edited the /etc/passwd
file and
changed root's shell to /bin/tcsh, then when I switched users and
tried to
su again, there is no /bin/tcsh! Im so mad at myself and I dont see a
way to
fix this easily without re-installing the whole OS.

Does anyone have a good idea to fix or solve this?

Thanks for any help!

Boot off cd in rescue mode, mount the root filesystem (if
it didn't do what for you) somewhere and edit /etc/passwd,
save change, umount, reboot... voila!


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