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Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 00:46:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: samath
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Subject: Cannot Login as root
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>Number:         3364
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       Cannot Login as root
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Apr 21 00:50:01 PDT 1997
>Closed-Date:    Mon Apr 21 09:10:58 PDT 1997
>Last-Modified:  Mon Apr 21 09:11:28 PDT 1997
>Originator:     Samath Wijesundera
>Release:        2.1.5
>Organization:
Sri Lanka Telecom
>Environment:
FreeBSD
>Description:
When you change the login shell using vipw of the root to 
a file name that is not existing file name, you can never login as 
root to  change the setting back
>How-To-Repeat:
Change the login shell using the vipw utility 
>Fix:
do not know
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: David Nugent <davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au>
To: samath@freefall.freebsd.org
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/3364: Cannot Login as root
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 21:41:25 +1000

 On Mon Apr 21 00:46:09 EST 1997, samath@freefall.freebsd.org writes:
 > >Description:
 > When you change the login shell using vipw of the root to 
 > a file name that is not existing file name, you can never login as 
 > root to  change the setting back
 
 su -m  or  boot single-user (which gives you /bin/sh, or a shell
 of your choice - the passwd database is never consulted).
 
 Regards,
 
 David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia
 Voice +61-3-9791-9547  Data/BBS +61-3-9792-3507  3:632/348@fidonet
 davidn@freebsd.org davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn/
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: jkh 
State-Changed-When: Mon Apr 21 09:10:58 PDT 1997 
State-Changed-Why:  
This is not a bug, you simply need to boot your system 
in single-user mode (see the FAQ).  It's the -s flag at 
the boot: prompt. 
>Unformatted:
