On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:27:14PM -0600, Chuck Hast wrote:
> Well, done it now. I was working on a remote box and forgot that I was
> on as root, I did a chsh thinking I was on as another login and changed
> the root shell to ash, but now I can not get back into the machine
> it appears that in the passwd file the ash shell is not shown as in any
> particular directory, and a attempt to login as root returns a message
> 'no shell'
> and it drops me out.
>
> I can log in as my self, and I can see the passwd file and sure enough
> root has been changed from :/bin/bash to just :ash
> And of course the passwd file only has root permissions. I guess
> short of having someone put a recovery CD in there and go change the
> thing there is not much I can do remotely...
Also under the heading of DUMB THINGS I'VE DONE, AND THE CLIENTS I DID
THEM TO:
I once was logged in to a client's network via PCAnywhere. Tired, and
thinking I was in a different directory, I issued "DEL *.*" and wiped
out all their accounting data. Fortunately for them, they kept daily
backups. Fortunately for me, I was able to convince them it must
be some sort of weird "computer glitch", and that I had just helped them
out by spotting it.
Paul
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