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Subject: Re: How to login to a machine with invalid shell in /etc/passwd?
From: Kevin Sindhu (kevintgivan.com)
Date: Tue Jan 02 2001 - 18:03:09 CST

Ello,

I 2nd that, and yes, su - root -c /bin/sh works.

From man su(1M):

Example 3: Executing command with User bin's Environment
and Permissions

To execute command with the temporary environment and per-
missions of user bin, type:

example% su - bin -c "command args"

Also, you could always boot -s which will give you /bin/sh for root, and
then mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 etc.

HTH

-Kevin 

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Kevin Sindhu
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