On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote:
> Okay guys, I'm counting on you :) > > Jack alluded to my having a new job; systems admin in Nashville. We have > a Fedora 13 (ominous as a starting point, no?) box that is our primary > firewall. Somebody changed the root password and then left. I have > complete access to the system, console etc. Have not yet tried to "rescue > boot" with a live disk because it is the firewall gateway and we need to > keep things up. > > In the mean time, the reason we were trying to log into this system has > been resolved so I probably shouldn't fuss too much. Just something > reeeeal bad about not knowing the root password to the firewall... > > What cheeses me off more than anything is no appearance of a grub or lilo > prompt in the boot sequence at which to intercept for maintenance. Deep > juju or ??? > > Howard > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscribe@** > googlegroups.com <nlug-talk%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/nlug-talk?hl=en <http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en> > Don't know what you are managing, but if there is any maintenance window for the whole of what is protected by the firewall or not. The web server I primarily work on... they have a maintenance window from the moment it turns Sunday through 6 am I think, if they need it... :/ Usually it is just down for whatever time it takes for a reboot (and Windows to finish installing whatever updates... *gag*). If it needs constant up-time, there should be redundancy anyway. As suspected, booting from a DVD/CD and go from there as others have said. Probably showing great ignorance here... once in there... is it be possible to set the root password to something created on another computer at this point? (i.e. replace the root password in the shadow password file with one from another computer.) I can imagine ways this would not work. Just never had the need to dig that far into how the passwords work. Paul Boniol -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
