Change your Shell using .profile

You might want to see HowTo.RunAnotherShellForRootSafely instead.

Requires:

• Unslung firmware and drive
• newer version of busybox

Steps:

• create /root directory (probably aready did this if you use dropbear to login)
• create /root/.profile (I actally created it as .login with a symlink to .profile)
• chmod 755 /root/.profile
• add commands to .profile to be executed on login

• logout
• login and verify that you are now in the new shell(double-shelled, but it works)

An alternative (although dangerous one) is to change your shell in the /etc/passwd file. This may require the creation of an /etc/shells file that lists the new shell, but I haven't tested this to know for sure.

heath

• if you create an /etc/shells and insert the following line:

/opt/bin/sh you will be able to edit your shell in /etc/passwd as follows: root:3Na3KhotdogAM:0:0:root:/root:/opt/bin/sh and still be able to log in...

greg lawler

• Another way to do this and also avoid double-shelling is to use exec, I simple have this in my .profile

kolla