On 20 Jun 00, at 14:56, Niall O Broin wrote:
> god:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
>> instead of
>> root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
>>> you can just do
>> su god
That won't work as su will try to run a shell with the correct uid and
crap out with a failure to retrieve authentication info.
Reboot into single user or sudo. Trust me. I had to figure this out
myself a few months ago. sudo will only work if you havent killed the
line completely from /etc/passwd. You can do sudo -u #0 vi /etc/passwd.
The reason sudo works is that it uses the current user's password and just
runs a command while su tries to use the target user's info which is in a
screwed state.
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