[SunHELP] Root Access Problem

[William W. Arnold]

Will Mc Donald writes ---
>First of all, nooooooooo. You really shouldn't change root's shell. Ever!

Good Advice.  Let me repeat it:
You really shouldn't change root's shell. Ever!

>>      When trying to change the default shell of root, I put in a incorrect
>> location (/sbin/ksh instead of /bin/sh) in /etc/passwd file. Without
>I don't know if this would work but you could cat /etc/passwd and see what
>it says root's shell is then symlink that to /bin/sh Could work.

It's probably not possible.  Most people's /sbin isn't writable except by root
and if you're root you can just edit the passwd file.

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-billy-  warnold at vipnet.org