how to stop /etc/profile.d/ from loading on startup

Question

I've bricked by RaspberryPi by installing a script into /etc/profile.d/

Apparently adding init=/bin/sh to cmdline.txt has not stopped the /etc/prpfile.d/ script from running. Is there a way to modify a config file from Windows to stop the /etc/profile.d/ script from running?

Answer 1

you may get another SD card and USB SD card reader, then you may put a fresh image on your new card, put the old one in the USB reader, and modify the old one from the familiar linux environment.

Answer 2

Two suggestions:

1) Files in /etc/profile.d are sourced from the /etc/profile script; this is the final block in mine from raspbian:

if [ -d /etc/profile.d ]; then
        for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh; do
                if [ -r $i ]; then
                        . $i
                fi
        done
        unset i
fi

I doubt it is sourced from more than one place, so if you comment out that block (or just the . $i line in the middle), it won't be read.

The reason using sh instead of bash didn't change anything is that sh is also suppose to read /etc/profile at login (see here).

2) Probably simpler and more foolproof: just rename /etc/profile.d:

mv /etc/profile.d /etc/profile.d-MOVED

Although I guess if you could do this, you could just remove the offending file. Note sure under what circumstances you will have read access to "modify a config file" but not (re)move one -- but good luck.