"This account is currently not available" ... Please help

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saddafm
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"This account is currently not available" ... Please help

Post by saddafm » 2016/03/12 04:21:30

Hello everyone.
To make my system more secure I made a big mistake when changing the root account setting in /etc/passwd file. I changed the root account's shell to /sbin/nologin becase I wanted to login to the root by sudo su. Anyway, after doing that, I logged in by another user account ad then typed sudo su command in order to log in to root via my current account; however, I got this message "This account is currently not available".
Is there anyway to redo what I have done or anyway to access to root account from another user account?

darkeale
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Re: "This account is currently not available" ... Please hel

Post by darkeale » 2016/03/12 11:38:45

Hi,

You might be able to fix this by booting from a live CD, mounting the partition where your filesystem is stored and then editing the file from there?

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TrevorH
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Re: "This account is currently not available" ... Please hel

Post by TrevorH » 2016/03/12 12:19:28

Use sudo su -s /bin/bash
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
Use the FAQ Luke

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