by Jimm » Thu, 28 Nov 2002 17:31:35
> Doing a cat of /etc/passwd shows that it is pointing to /bin/sh, but
> when I try to fire it as a user, all I get is a Seg-Fault.
> I have tried su to, and it still fails.
If you've got problems with plain old "su" then there's something
more to this scenario...
-Jimmo
by Dave Uhrin » Thu, 28 Nov 2002 23:45:20
> Doing a cat of /etc/passwd shows that it is pointing to /bin/sh, but
> when I try to fire it as a user, all I get is a Seg-Fault.
> I have tried su to, and it still fails. I have tried using the
> SMC-2.0 to try and change the role and permissions of a generic user,
> but still I cannot get into root.
by Mark R.Bannist » Fri, 29 Nov 2002 00:32:20
> > Doing a cat of /etc/passwd shows that it is pointing to /bin/sh, but
> > when I try to fire it as a user, all I get is a Seg-Fault.
> > I have tried su to, and it still fails.
> Even if you do "su" with no arguments? That should work because
> you only change to the superuser shell with "su -"
> If you've got problems with plain old "su" then there's something
> more to this scenario...
> -Jimmo
Mark.
by Dave Uhrin » Fri, 29 Nov 2002 00:53:28
> # which sh
> /usr/bin/sh
> However sh does exist in both directories though. All of this
> occurred not long after running the SMC3 installer.
> It did not occur straight away, but after some other operations root
> was no longer able to log in due to the Seg-Fault on sh
by Geezer From The Freeze » Fri, 29 Nov 2002 01:04:37
> /sbin/sh is statically linked, /usr/bin/sh is dynamically linked. You
> may at some time come to appreciate the importance of this.
or regret it later!
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by Erik Max Franci » Fri, 29 Nov 2002 03:57:04
> > Root's shell is /sbin/sh, not /bin/sh. Boot from Software CD 1 and
> > edit /etc/passwd.
> # which sh
> /usr/bin/sh
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by Thomas Deh » Fri, 29 Nov 2002 04:53:41
> # which sh
> /usr/bin/sh
> However sh does exist in both directories though.
Thomas
by Stephen Harr » Fri, 29 Nov 2002 05:48:27
> That being the case, why would a default install point to /bin/sh?
pizza% uname -a
SunOS pizza 5.8 Generic_108528-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10
pizza% grep root /etc/passwd
root:x:0:1:Super-User:/:/sbin/sh
If your root shell is /bin/sh then it's been broken somewhere...Quote:> The system is still in its rather vanilla state atm.
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by Dave Uhrin » Fri, 29 Nov 2002 08:28:06
> No I did read, but what I am seeing here on this system is not
> reflecting what I am seeing here in the ng.
> Something must have happened between the final reboot and the
> installation of SMC3.
by Davorin Vlahovi » Fri, 29 Nov 2002 17:27:12
try
su root -c "another shell"
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4. root's shell, /sbin/sh, /bin/sh and /usr/ksh
6. executing /bin/sh script in a /bin/csh login
8. inetd.conf : 9705 stream tcp nowait root /bin/sh sh -i
9. executing /bin/sh script in a /bin/csh login #2
10. #!/bin/sh #!/usr/bin/sh can I do both for 2 diff machines
11. more secure?: "#!/bin/sh -" or "#!/bin/sh"
12. INIT:Cannot Execute "/bin/sh"