Re: FW: Root account desactivated

[Iván Eguiguren <ivan.eguiguren () educ mec es>]

I should boot from a live-cd and mount the partition in read/write mode
as I could change files in it. Just change back the /etc/passwd line,
umount, and reboot... voi-là.

El vie, 12-03-2004 a las 01:43, Jimmy Godbout escribió:
> Hi,
>
> Have you tried to use the rescue feature of RH to boot the machine and then
> change the line to the right value ?
>
> Regards,
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MARTIN M. Benoni [mailto:benoni_martin () hotmail com]
> Sent: March 11, 2004 09:48
> To: security-basics () securityfocus com
> Subject: Root account desactivated
>
>
> 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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