changed shell using 'chsh'! Now cant login to root !! ?? Help

ashikaumanga · 01-21-2009, 08:14 PM

Greetings all,

I accidently,changed the shell to 'zsh' (which is not installed) using 'chsh'.This happened while I was logged in as root.

Now I can't login as root ,or execute any programs which need root privileges.

When I try to login it says:

"umanga@umanga:~/.biskit$ su
Password:
Cannot execute /usr/bin/zsh: No such file or directory
"

how to fix this?
PS: I use Debian

Valery Reznic · 01-22-2009, 06:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ashikaumanga

Greetings all,

I accidently,changed the shell to 'zsh' (which is not installed) using 'chsh'.This happened while I was logged in as root.

Now I can't login as root ,or execute any programs which need root privileges.

When I try to login it says:

"umanga@umanga:~/.biskit$ su
Password:
Cannot execute /usr/bin/zsh: No such file or directory
"

how to fix this?
PS: I use Debian

Boot from LiveCD, mount your root partition and change your shell back

rweaver · 01-22-2009, 09:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ashikaumanga

how to fix this?
PS: I use Debian

Code:

su - -s /bin/bash
chsh -s /bin/bash
exit

If that doesn't fix it, you'll need to use the other method of a live cd, mounting the filesystem, and changing the passwd file entry manually.

ashikaumanga · 01-22-2009, 11:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rweaver

Code:

su - -s /bin/bash
chsh -s /bin/bash
exit

If that doesn't fix it, you'll need to use the other method of a live cd, mounting the filesystem, and changing the passwd file entry manually.

Yes,I fixed it using a LiveCD... the first method didn't work.