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Re: Help: Lost *BASH* & *util-linux* - & cant login at all!!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Buck)
Mon Oct 28 14:12:23 1996
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 10:32:45 -0800 (PST)
From: Jeff Buck <jeffb@pegasus.usmicro.net>
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On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Bryan Feir wrote:
>
> On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, 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 !
>
> Sure, it's fairly easy... assuming you can FTP in as root, which may
> be locked out. Get a copy of bash from some other source and FTP it
> into place, then log in. FTP doesn't require a shell.
>
I think that you might also be able to get the machine to boot you
straight to a prompt if you boot it up sinlge. To do this, you just
reboot the machine, and when you get to the lilo prompt, stop it, and
instead of typeing "linux", type "linux single".... I think this should
bring you up to a prompt in sh (note, no need to log in).. I'm not totally
sure that it dumps you in sh though.. It might try to dump you into bash,
in which case, this idea is foo.. but you could always just grab bash,
grab a emergency recovery disk (anything that can mount ext2 partitions
should work.. and put the old copy back....
Oh well, good luck.. I hope one of the options works out ok for you.
-Jeff
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