Re: root shell not found

On 2008-01-24, Jeff <jeep@xxxxxxxxx> 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!

Maybe you can use sudo to edit /etc/passwd or install tcsh or even make
a temporary symlink from /bin/sh to /bin/tcsh. If not, if it boots with
Grub, press "e" to edit the kernel command line, and add "init=/bin/sh".
That should give you a shell where you can edit /etc/passwd.
Or you could boot a live CD...
.

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