Need help after changing shell

[GauravBisht]

Hi guys,

I am new here so, don't know how to start a discussion here but I recently changed my SHELL to korn from bash in both normal user & root.

Now I am not able to log in to any of them. Any assistance will be really appreciated.

[TrevorH]

What did you change and how? What exactly did you do to change the shell?

[tunk]

I don't think ksh is installed by default.
If you haven't installed it, then you may have to update /etc/passwd by e.g. booting a live distro and mount the partition.

[MartinR]

If you can log in as any user you should be able to su into root using bash:

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$ su -s /bin/sh
Password:
sh-4.2# echo $SHELL
/bin/sh
sh-4.2#

You ought to be able to run vipw and fix the problem.

As a check I also tried the same thing getting into Korn (/bin/ksh). The prompt was a plain hash, and the output from the echo was /bin/ksh, so exactly as documented and expected.

--BTW, Remember to log out of su sessions ASAP, they are dangerous to leave running as I'm sure you remember!