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Re: Help: Lost *BASH* & *util-linux* - & cant login at all!!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (BORG)
Sun Oct 27 01:13:28 1996
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 22:04:17 -0700
From: BORG <vladimip@iceonline.com>
To: psci@teleport.com
CC: redhat-list@redhat.com
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
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PSCI wrote:
>
> Due to inadvertently removing (uninstalling) bash & util-linux by
> someone who shouldnt have had 'root', we can no longer login to the
> shell (it returns imm. to login aft. p/w). We are using RH 3.0.3 updated
> to kernel 2.0.0. Is there a way to "restore" bash and util-linux short
> of reinstalling and losing all?? Anxiously awaiting help !
Yup. Boot it from the 3.0.3 CD-ROM, but instead of proceeding
with install, just when it starts asking your questions,
flip to another VC, mouint your partition where your / is
normally supposed to be, under /mnt/mydrive, edit
/mnt/mydrive/etc/passwd to reflect another
shell (you don't have bash only do you?), and reboot. If bash
is the only shell installed on your system, then do:
rpm -ihv --root /mnt/mydrive bash-1.14.whatever.rpm
That's the way I recovered /libc just two
weeks ago after hosing them. :)
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