Re: Root account desactivated

[Andreas <andreas () inferno nadir org>]

On Mar 11, MARTIN M. BXnoni wrote:
> 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!

If you have physical access to the box, why not boot from a rescue disk
and change the appropriate line in /etc/passwd ?

regards, 
andreas


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