Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 23:29:59 -0500 (EST) From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <jmcla@ocala.cs.miami.edu> To: Javier Henderson <javier@kjsl.com> Cc: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shooting yourself in the foot Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.96.971222232830.16691C-100000@ocala.cs.miami.edu> In-Reply-To: <199712230350.TAA00998@kjsl.com>
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You might have to...I never had kerberos enabled. My problem was I didn't add the shell to /etc/shells, and su -m wouldn't work for me. The single user mode was the solution I found. I might be making more trouble than it's worth, but I figure I'll offer any help I can. Joe Clarke On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Javier Henderson wrote: > Matthew D. Fuller writes: > > On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Joe "Marcus" Clarke wrote: > > > > > The way I fixed this when I did something similar was to take the system > > > down to single user mode, `shutdown now`, then remount / as read/write, > > > mount -u /, then edit /etc/shells to allow for /bin/false as a valid > > > shell. Bring the system back up to multi-user and login as a user > > > allowed to su to root. Then su to root using su -m, you should be able > > > to issue a chsh root then. If you have no ther users in wheel, then > > > instaed of editing /etc/shells, use vipw to edit the password file and > > > change roots shell back to something else. > > No need to shutdown. > > Just do a su -m, then use vipw to set root's shell back to sh (or csh if > > you're REALLY perverse ;). > > Well... > > bash-2.01$ su -m > su: kerberos: not in root's ACL. > Password: > su: permission denied (shell). > > > I guess I'll have to shutdown, eh? > > -jav >
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