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From: Jason Wells <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
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Ravi Pina wrote:
> 
> Well, I seemt o have supplied an invalid shell for root, so when I want
> to su over it gives me a Permission denied!  I appear to be completely
> locked out of the system as a result... any idea what I can do to
> overcome this problem?  It owuld be nice if it just fell back to /bin/sh
> or something so you can login even if you're a dork like me.

I did this. I seem to recall that I just logged in as root (not su) and
was able to select my shell.

If you want to use a different shell you can edited /etc/shells and put
the desired shell in this file. Then it will no longer be invalid.

You may also try reading man su. I beleive that you can su -m without
the shell being changed. This will give you your root power back. As you
will be root but with the pre-existing shell. Then you can edit
everything and make it right.
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