Andrew Benton wrote: > On 08/06/10 21:54, Mike McCarty wrote: >> piper.guy1 wrote: >>> Sooo...before I do something else that I'm not suppose to do, I >>> thought I'd get advise first. My thinking is that I need to get a >>> Linux rescue or recovery CD, mount the file system on the hard drive, >>> and then add a symlink to bash. Make sense or is there an easier way? >> That seems like the most obvious way to put the system back the >> way it was. If you want to get the system more prepared for >> the future, you could change the entry in /etc/passwd for your >> login to point to /bin/dash or whatever for all users you actually >> need to use, like root, yourself, and lfs or whoever. > > Safer than editing /etc/passwd by hand is to use the command usermod > (read man usermod). Eg (as root) > usermod -s /bin/bash $USERNAME
Yes, that's the recommended procedure. I wasn't intending to suggest using an editor. Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} Oppose globalization and One World Governments like the UN. This message made from 100% recycled bits. You have found the bank of Larn. I speak only for myself, and I am unanimous in that! -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page