Re: Root account desactivated

[sil <jesus () resurrected us>]

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



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On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, MARTIN M. B?noni wrote:

> Hi community!
>
> I have a really stupid trouble: on a Redhat 9.0, the line matching the root
> account in the file /etc/passwd has been changed from ".../bin/bash" to
> ".../sbin/nologin". We have the root password, but when performing a "su"
> command, the system replies that the account is not currently available.
>
> So the question is: how from an user's account and knowing the root's
> password but having the root account disabled can we reactivate this root's
> account?
>
> Any suggestion would be appreciated, I do not want to reinstall the box :(
>
> Thanks a lot in advance!
>
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