[TriLUG] Cant su in ssh, please help

[Brian Henning]

Not sure what would cause that, so this advice may be completely useless,
but at least I tried..

If you can get to any sort of command-line interface as root, try

usermod -s /bin/bash root

...substituting your favorite shell in place of /bin/bash (if bash isn't
your favorite shell...although it should be ;-) ).

Or, try using Webmin to change the shell option for user root in the
System -> Users and Groups applet.

HTH,
~Brian

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hariharan Gopalan" <hariom100 at yahoo.com>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 11:09 AM
Subject: [TriLUG] Cant su in ssh, please help


> I installed Ensim Pro and now cant su in ssh..... fortunately webmin was
installed so am able to see the logs and play around,
>
> This is the error I am getting:
>
> User root not allowed because shell /dev/null is not executable
>
> checked /etc/passwd and /dev/shell is not mentioned for root. also checked
and replaced /etc/pam.d/sshd with the what is there in /etc/pam.d/webmin,
still the same problem,
>
> wonder where /dev/null is specified for root
>
> This is fedora core 1 installation, and later messed up by ensim pro
>
> any ideas?
>
> Thanks a ton
> Hari
>
>
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