Le 12/02/2010 02:24, Olivier Nicole a écrit :
If you have physical access to the server, just reboot it in single user
mode,
and change the password. You might need to forcibly power it off. It is
all
covered in the handbook. If you don't have physical access, I think you
may
be out of luck...
May be out of luck? I would hope he is totally out of luck without
physical access, if
you get my drift!
Hope you do have physical access Eric....
May not be out of luck depending on if the machine has had the last couple
of years worth of updates. I'm guessing not if nobody has the root password
and the persom who had set it up in the first place has been MIA for who
knows how long.
I was thinking along the same lines, but at same time Eric didn't know
about booting to single user, so would he be able to remotely hack
into his own system?
Olivier
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If this is a dedicated server (or a VPS, or RPS, or any type of server
hosted by a server provider), you may have a rescue system, so you can
boot it and chroot yourself to access the system. Or, in some cases, you
can have a KVM-over-IP access, so you can boot into single user mode.
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