Whenever I use the sudo -i command in the terminal, I get:
$ sudo -i
[sudo] password for user:
sudo: /bin/bash/asd: command not found
The /bin/bash/asd was just some mistyped directory I entered previously.
Even after restarting and clearing the terminal history, sudo keeps giving me this error.
Is there any way to fix this?
It happened to me right now while testing that what can be the cause of the problem and sure it is because of a non-existent shell being set as root default shell.
I couldn't run any command with sudo, I wasn't able to run sudo -i, sudo -i /bin/bash or even sudo su -, because there is no /bin/bash/asd.
The only thing that I could do and it worked was running:
sudo -s /bin/dash
to get shell with root access, sudo -s /bin/bash should work too.
Then use nano to edit passwd file:
nano /etc/passwd
you should see a line look like this:
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash/asd
change it to :
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
use Ctrl+O then pressing Enterto save the file.
Now use exit command to get out of dash shell which hasroot access.
You are done, however I suggest running:
sudo chsh root -s /bin/bash
to make sure permissions are correct.
sudo chsh ...to change the root shell becasuesudodoes not work correctly right now as I described you should change/etc/passwdfile manually. read my answer again; also Pay attention to the answer, I didn't say to change root shell to/bin/bash/I said change it to:/bin/bash:-) – Ravexina May 14 '17 at 21:54chsherrors. – Chai T. Rex May 14 '17 at 22:39