Different shell with SSH?

Allright, I need a bit of help.. I kind of screwed up... And I don't want to drive an hour to change it locally..

I'm working on a OpenBSD machine remotely.. Somewhere along the line ldconfig fsck'd up..
Now when I try to login with ssh I get the message "bash: can't load library 'libintl.so.2.0'".

Is there a way to change my shell to /bin/sh remotely so I can login again?

I've tried ssh remote.system /usr/bin/chsh, ssh remote.system /bin/sh and a few more I could think of. They all respond with the same error message..

SirDice,

From my foggy memories, any login command (ssh or telnet or ...) will run the shell specified in your user profile. Thus, if you are set to use bash, it will start bash to execute your remote command.

Do you have any other user account on the machine not configured to use bash?

Not much help ... but maybe the only way to go.

Cheers,

BrainStop

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Originally posted here by BrainStop
Do you have any other user account on the machine not configured to use bash?

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Only root but I cannot use it remote :(

I've also tried ssh remote.system "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib /bin/sh" but that too fails :mad: :brickwall

Do you happen to have any other services running? Maybe FTP or Samba? You could download and modify the necessary files and then upload them back to the system.

Unfortunately SSH is the only service running on that machine...
Scp and sftp both didn't work as they both needed bash?!?

I even tried things like echo /usr/bin/chsh | ssh remote.host 'cat > ~/.ssh/rc' and ssh remote.host /bin/sh -k 'sudo -s'.. Nothing worked..

Fortunately we found someone at the hosting company willing to help.. So the problem is solved :)

But I would still like to know if it's even possible. For future reference ;)

Are any of the commands you are trying to run actually running ? I don't see how you would be able to execute any commands via SSH if the logon/scp isn't working because its always going to look at /etc/passwd for your shell and try to run it...

If for some reason it is working, have you tried setting up a tunnel, like for X ?
xhost +localhost
ssh -XCAY user@<remotehost> xterm &

Another thought...happen to have netcat installed ?

If SSH itself needs bash (using your /etc/passwd shell) to run things you may be screwed, you might try starting a telnet daemon, but again, if ssh uses bash to execute the commands its passed you're screwed.


-Maestr0

Have you tried running an sftp / scp session and uploading a new passwd file?
Just a guess but that might bypass the need for the shell...


Ammo