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RE: How to login to a machine with invalid shell in /etc/passwd?
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Jason Coene wrote:
> su root -c "/path/to/bash"
>
> thus eliminating the request to use the default shell. i dont know if it
unlikely ? -c passes its arg to the _shell_, so there still has to be
a shell to interpret it, iirc. (or was that linux's su ? hell knows,
to be exact :)
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