On Mon, 08 Dec 2008 08:30:54 -0500
michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
does remote machine have ipmi?
indeed..or iLO or serial console... you'd be surprised the number of dedicated
servers on offer that don't have any out of band access available... i guess
it's the option everyone wants once
J
On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 11:04:00AM +0100, Redd Vinylene wrote:
On this dedicated box here I made the mistake of adding a comment to
root's entry in my password file:
root:*:0:0::/root:/bin/sh # What I thought would be a harmless comment.
Now I can't su to root. And my ISP is closed on
On this dedicated box here I made the mistake of adding a comment to
root's entry in my password file:
root:*:0:0::/root:/bin/sh # What I thought would be a harmless comment.
Now I can't su to root. And my ISP is closed on Sundays. Is there any
way I can fix this on my own?
Thanks y'all!
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On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Redd Vinylene [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
On this dedicated box here I made the mistake of adding a comment to
root's entry in my password file:
root:*:0:0::/root:/bin/sh # What I thought would be a harmless comment.
Now I can't su to root. And my ISP is closed
Thanks guys. But I guess I'm all outta luck:
$ sudo -s
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libutil.so.5 not found, required by sudo
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Glen Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 5:04 AM, Redd Vinylene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On this dedicated box
Redd Vinylene wrote:
Thanks guys. But I guess I'm all outta luck:
$ sudo -s
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libutil.so.5 not found, required by
sudo
[snip]
Don't know if this would help but you might try creating a file called
libmap.conf in /etc and place in it:
libutil.so.5
On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 06:02:26AM -0500, Michael Powell typed:
Redd Vinylene wrote:
Thanks guys. But I guess I'm all outta luck:
$ sudo -s
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libutil.so.5 not found, required by
sudo
[snip]
Don't know if this would help but you might try
Ruben de Groot wrote:
[snip]
This advise is only helpful if you have root allready =)
I've never figured out why people seem to always want to play with the
root account the way they do, such as the favorite I wanna use bash
for root's shell...
Since the OP seems to want to keep playing with
On Sun, December 7, 2008 11:04, Redd Vinylene wrote:
On this dedicated box here I made the mistake of adding a comment to
root's entry in my password file:
root:*:0:0::/root:/bin/sh # What I thought would be a harmless comment.
Now I can't su to root. And my ISP is closed on Sundays. Is
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 5:04 AM, Redd Vinylene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On this dedicated box here I made the mistake of adding a comment to
root's entry in my password file:
root:*:0:0::/root:/bin/sh # What I thought would be a harmless comment.
This is why you shouldn't edit password files
On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 11:04:00AM +0100, Redd Vinylene wrote:
On this dedicated box here I made the mistake of adding a comment to
root's entry in my password file:
root:*:0:0::/root:/bin/sh # What I thought would be a harmless comment.
Now I can't su to root. And my ISP is closed on
If so, force it to reboot - maybe by pulling the plug if you have to
then bring it up in single user mode.
CTRL-ALT-DEL shutdowns the system unless it was configured not to.
Remount root mount -u /
Then use vipw to edit the file and remove that comment and any trailing
blanks on that
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Michael Powell wrote:
I've never figured out why people seem to always want to play with the
root account the way they do, such as the favorite I wanna use bash
for root's shell...
Probably because most users are unaware of the harm that it
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