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Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 22:57:28 -0500 (CDT)
From: James Wyatt <jwyatt@rwsystems.net>
To: jahanur <jahanur@jjsoft.com>
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Subject: Re: root access problem please help.
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On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, jahanur wrote:
> HI, everybody,
> I have got a major problem. 
> Whenever I try to login as root it says "su: /bin/bash: No such file or
> directory".
> After a lot investgation I found out that the other administrator was
> trying to change shell for some user. He is not shure what he did, but he
> ran the "chsh" command while he was root and probably changed the shell
> for the root.
> 
> I have tried copying the "bash" in /bin directory by using "su root -c "cp
> bash /bin" from /usr/local/bin/ directory.
> I dont know what else I could do.
> Please help.
> 
> Jahanur

If I understand, can't you just do something like:

	su root -c "chsh"

It's times like this I appreciate sudo... - Jy@



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