Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 20:37:11 -0500 (CDT) From: Bruce Burden <brucegb@realtime.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unix Virus.. Old but Nasty Message-ID: <200005150137.UAA42751@sullivan.realtime.net> In-Reply-To: <m2zopswrui.fsf@reader.ptw.com> from Harry Putnam at "May 14, 2000 05:59:49 pm"
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> > > I was quite suprised to notice that the venerable "vi" is not resident > in /bin either. Luckily I remembered enough about "ed" to edit > /etc/passwrd. But that still didn't get the job done. > You should not be editing the /etc/passwd file. Use "vipw" to do that, since the pass word file is shadowed. I simply took the "root" entry with csh, and called it something else. Same UID 0, same GID 0, but now it is something else. That way, If all else fails, I still have that access to /. I hope. :-) For my choice of shells as "root", I then copied the old "root" entry, and instead of "/bin/csh", I have "/usr/local/bin/bash". Now "root" is running bash as the default shell. > > Maybe someone has a scipt that makes it more seamless. > No need for a script, just need to know what buttons to push. :-) Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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