root problems! - Solved!

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 20:21, Alan Dayley wrote:
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> Thanks all for your help!
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> I tried to use appended commands to bring up an alternate shell.  It worked 
> but it would only mount the hard drive file system as read-only.  I tried to 
> change the "ro" in the GRUB link to "rw" but that didn't seem to solve it.
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> So, out came my Red Hat 7.3 System Administrator's Survival CD.  Booting with 
> that it had an option during the boot to mount the file systems as 
> read-write.  I went to my hard drive /bin and did the "chmod 755 bash" 
> command.  Rebooted and all is well!  Nice little rescue CD, that one!
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> Well, I now know not to use chmod because I THINK I know what it will do.
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also

when you su to root, do it as 'su -' as the dash will make it a login
shell and load the root settings (such as the paths)

Craig