Re: Locked out of Root

2008-10-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
APseudoUtopia [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have one user (other than root and the other system users) on my box, and that user is _NOT_ in the wheel group. I also have root logins disabled via SSH. This is a remote server and all I have is SSH access. Is there any way that I can gain root? I

Re: Locked out of Root

2008-10-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
group, and root login is disabled in SSH. Thanks for any help/advice. You'll need to reboot in single-user mode. E.g., http://be-well.ilk.org/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#SU-WHEEL-GROUP -- and next time - do enable root login through ssh/rlogin/telnetd there is no

Re: Locked out of Root

2008-10-23 Thread scuba
: Benjamin Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: Locked out of Root | To: APseudoUtopia [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org | Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 11:25 PM | | Login as the unprivileged user and run: | | $ su | | See su(1

Re: Locked out of Root

2008-10-23 Thread Marcelo Souza
: Benjamin Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: Locked out of Root | To: APseudoUtopia [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org | Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 11:25 PM | | Login as the unprivileged user and run: | | $ su | | See su(1

Re: Locked out of Root

2008-10-23 Thread mdh
--- On Thu, 10/23/08, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Locked out of Root To: APseudoUtopia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008, 7:44 AM APseudoUtopia [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I

Re: Locked out of Root

2008-10-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 08:25:30PM -0700, Benjamin Lee wrote: On 10/22/08 19:55, APseudoUtopia wrote: Hey, I have one user (other than root and the other system users) on my box, and that user is _NOT_ in the wheel group. I also have root logins disabled via SSH. This is a remote

Re: Locked out of Root

2008-10-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 02:43:47PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: group, and root login is disabled in SSH. Thanks for any help/advice. You'll need to reboot in single-user mode. E.g., http://be-well.ilk.org/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#SU-WHEEL-GROUP -- and next

Re: Locked out of Root

2008-10-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
which will allow you to login as root directly. | |- mdh | |--- On Wed, 10/22/08, Benjamin Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | From: Benjamin Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: Locked out of Root | To: APseudoUtopia [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org | Date: Wednesday

Re: Locked out of Root

2008-10-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:55:19PM -0400, APseudoUtopia wrote: Hey, I have one user (other than root and the other system users) on my box, and that user is _NOT_ in the wheel group. I also have root logins disabled via SSH. This is a remote server and all I have is SSH access. Is there

Re: Locked out of Root

2008-10-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
mdh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If he can get to the system console, why would he need to bother booting to single user mode? He said he has the root password. He should just be able to login normally, if he can get to the system console. To be honest, I was just guessing that there was

Re: Locked out of Root

2008-10-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
It guarantees that the root password is passed encrypted. So, next time do NOT enable root loging via ssh. Instead, put the non-root user in the wheel group. funny :) jerry if course it's not bright to login as root over telnet through public network, but too - it's not security

Locked out of Root

2008-10-22 Thread APseudoUtopia
Hey, I have one user (other than root and the other system users) on my box, and that user is _NOT_ in the wheel group. I also have root logins disabled via SSH. This is a remote server and all I have is SSH access. Is there any way that I can gain root? I know the root password and everything,

Re: Locked out of Root

2008-10-22 Thread Benjamin Lee
On 10/22/08 19:55, APseudoUtopia wrote: Hey, I have one user (other than root and the other system users) on my box, and that user is _NOT_ in the wheel group. I also have root logins disabled via SSH. This is a remote server and all I have is SSH access. Is there any way that I can gain

Re: Locked out of Root

2008-10-22 Thread Jon Radel
Benjamin Lee wrote: On 10/22/08 19:55, APseudoUtopia wrote: Hey, I have one user (other than root and the other system users) on my box, and that user is _NOT_ in the wheel group. I also have root logins disabled via SSH. This is a remote server and all I have is SSH access. Is there any

Re: Locked out of Root

2008-10-22 Thread mdh
directly. - mdh --- On Wed, 10/22/08, Benjamin Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Benjamin Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Locked out of Root To: APseudoUtopia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 11:25 PM Login as the unprivileged user