On Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 11:57:27AM +0100, E.L. Meijer Eric" wrote:
> >
> > Yes. Most strange I can't log in as root or "su" I have just upgraded to
> > slink from hamm. Everything went pretty well, for some reason sash became
> > my shell for root? (probably me using dselect - iused the multicd method.
> > well not Knowing
> > sash (well not at all axcept that its pretty powewrful, i've logged out
> > root bye typing "exit" which dropped me back to a console login prompt (so
> > far so good )BUT....now i cant login as root! i can log in as any user but
> > NO-ROOT! i keep
> > getting a quick messabe saying "su:cannot execute exit no file or
> > directory" then it just
> > drops me back to the ansci login prompt?? it seems like a danferous feature
> > can it be remidied ??????
>
> Maybe try
>
> su -s /bin/bash root
>
> to become root with a bash shell.
>
> HTH,
> Eric Meijer
Try'd this system output is sy using restricted shell exit.
so i still cant login?
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