Re: Root account desactivated

[Paul Mohr <boredMDer74 () gawab com>]

On Mar 11, 2004, at 5:50 PM, sil wrote:

> If you have sudo on the machine you can try doing something like
>
> sudo sed 's/\/sbin/\/nologin/\/bin\/bash/g' /etc/passwd >> 
> /tmp/passwd|\
> mv /tmp/passwd /etc/passwd
Mind you that would change every single locked out account to have a 
shell of '/bin/bash'. Not just root.


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