Re: Root users shell == no existant shell /bin/bash

From: Peter C. Lai (sirmoo_at_cowbert.net)
Date: 07/09/04

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    Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 06:33:42 -0400
To: Anders Dahlqvist <anders@kommandoraden.info>

    On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 11:58:35AM +0200, Anders Dahlqvist wrote:
    > torsdagen den 8 juli 2004 17.29 skrev Brandon Grace:
    > > I made a mistake setting my shell and have set the root users shell to
    > > /bin/bash instead of /bin/sh. I am curiuos if anyone knows how to fix this.
    > > The machines is FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p4 and does not have sudo only su.
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    > ...and I gather that "su - toor" doesn't work either for some reason or other?

    toor has a disabled (*) password by default. What Brannon should have done was
    set a password for toor in the beginning, without mucking around with root's
    shell. But as a rule of thumb, you're probably superuser way too much if you
    develop an urge to change it shell anyway.

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