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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Profile.d script logs out Post 302981258 by Don Cragun on Thursday 8th of September 2016 11:39:49 PM
Old 09-09-2016
If you haven't rebooted the system, your login shell for root is bash, and someone is still logged in, commandeer their terminal and try:
Code:
su - root login --noprofile

This will leave you with a bash running as root without the benefit of the actions normally run by /etc/profile, ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile. With any luck, that would enable you to remove the disastrous changes you made to /etc/profile.

If root's login shell is not bash, check the man page for the shell root uses on your system and see if it provides a similar way to disable using /etc/profile when you login.

Good luck...
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script(1)							   User Commands							 script(1)

NAME
script - make record of a terminal session SYNOPSIS
script [-a] [filename] DESCRIPTION
The script utility makes a record of everything printed on your screen. The record is written to filename. If no file name is given, the record is saved in the file typescript. See WARNINGS. The script command forks and creates a sub-shell, according to the value of $SHELL, and records the text from this session. The script ends when the forked shell exits or when Control-d is typed. OPTIONS
The following option is supported: -a Appends the session record to filename, rather than overwriting it. NOTES
script places everything that appears on the screen in filename, including prompts. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |CSI |Enabled | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
attributes(5) WARNINGS
script can pose a security risk when used in directories that are writable by other users (for example, /tmp), especially when run by a privileged user, that is, root. Be sure that typescript is not a link before running script. SunOS 5.11 30 Jan 2004 script(1)
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