RE: Screwed up profile file

["Bernard Chew, Lai Wan" <Bernard Chew dnvps com>]

Maybe you could boot up using a floppy (to get root priviledges) and
mount your disk on a separate directory tree. This should allow you to
have full root access to all files on the hard disk.

Rgds.

Bernard Chew

>-----Original Message-----
>From:	José Pedro Sousa do Amaral [SMTP:amaral@storeria.bio.ou.edu]
>Sent:	Monday, December 14, 1998 1:07 AM
>To:	axp-list@redhat.com
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>Subject:	Screwed up profile file
>
>Hello (writes he sheepishly):
>I screwed up my profile file. I added a path that unfortunately recycles
>any login to the login prompt. I tried to edit the file through ftp and
>telnet, but to no avail.
>Is there a way I can bypass the current profile file and login to my
>machine to edit it back to the way it should have been?
>TIA
>ZP
>
>José Pedro Sousa do Amaral
>
>In my craft or sullen art
>Exercised in the still night
>When only the moon rages
>And the lovers lie abed
>With all their griefs in their arms
>I labour by singing light
>Not for ambition or bread
>Or the strut and trade of charms
>On the ivory stages
>But for the common wages
>Of their most secret heart.
>    --D. Thomas
>
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