On 11/30/97 5:46 PM, Paul Goyette, paul@whooppee.com wrote:

>Since you've still got a valid shell why not just copy bash to /bin/csh
>and then log in as root?  Granted, you'll be running under bash but at
>least you'll be running! 
>

I've just tried your suggestion, but I can't get it to work.  mkdir will 
not let me make /bin, and cp won't let me copy /usr//lcoal/bin/bash to 
/bin/csh because the directory doesn't exist. :-(

Another thing that occured to me to try is to telnet in, ftp the files 
over and then untar and unlink them.  I don't think that will work 
either, because I can't be root.

I was also thinking of trying to rewrite the passwd file to change root's 
shell, but again, I don't have the permissions.

Regards,

Sean.


                 T. Sean (Theo) Schulze
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