Well, my second suggestion about creating an account and SUing to root
should still be correct. Assuming of course that you can get in in
single user mode.
Take a look at /etc/ttys there may be something in there restricting it,
thats all I can think of.
Veronica Labarca wrote:
Hi Chris,
Thanks for your quick response. No. I mean root login at the console is
dissallowed. Why??? Beats me! I got it that way.
Viqui
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From: Chris St Denis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 2:24 PM
To: Veronica Labarca
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Enabling root login without an administrator account
Veronica Labarca wrote:
Hi,
I have inherited a FreeBSD server and need to change the apache
configuration, but cannot log in to the server. I have the root
password (and know how to change it if needed in any case). The
problem is that root login is disabled. There are various
administrative accounts on the server, but I don't have the password
to any of those. Can someone advise me as to either, how to get the
root login enabled or how to change the password on a different account?
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Viqui
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I'm assuming you mean root login via SSH is disabled (as is the default).
IIRC, root can always login from the console.
Login as root from the console (or boot into single user mode) and edit
/etc/ssh/sshd_config
Uncomment "PermitRootLogin" line and change no to yes.
An alternate (and better) solution is to create yourself a user account in
the wheel group and use that to login then SU up to root.
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