[PD] auto login + auto run pd on linux

Yves Degoyon ydegoyon at free.fr
Thu Jan 29 22:19:49 CET 2004


hi,

of course you have problems since all the commands
suggested require that you log in first ( but you can't ! ).

the only way is to boot on a minimal linux on floppy
( for instance : http://boot.everywhere.dk/ ),
mount the root partition and modify the
/etc/passwd file.

suerte,
sevy

Ales Zemene wrote:

>i have the some problem on one pc, but if i do:
>  su -c "chsh -s /bin/bash/"
>
>i get :
>  Password :
>  No shell
>
>rebooting does not help 
>
>A.Z.
>
>On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Frank Barknecht wrote:
>
>>Hallo,
>>Zachris Trolin hat gesagt: // Zachris Trolin wrote:
>>
>>>ons 2004-01-28 klockan 14.59 skrev marius schebella:
>>>
>>>>>also i have stupidly locked myself out my root account by:
>>>>>chsh -s /sbin/nologin
>>>>>i thought this would bypass the login procedure - whoops!
>>>>>how can i get my root account back?
>>>>>this is my real problem at the moment
>>>>>thanks,
>>>>>rob
>>>>>
>>>I guess you could login as an ordinary user and then use su - this is
>>>probably the easy and best way, 
>>>
>>Maybe this will help:
>>
>>$ su -c "chsh -s /bin/bash/"
>>
>>ciao
>>
>
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