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 hole

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

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. > > I

Re: Locked out of Root

2008-10-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
ess you're > running another remote access service besides ssh 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]> > |> Subje

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 >

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 r

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

Re: Locked out of Root

2008-10-23 Thread Marcelo Souza
TECTED]> 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 |> |>

Re: Locked out of Root

2008-10-23 Thread scuba
TECTED]> 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 |> |&

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 securi

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

Re: Locked out of Root

2008-10-22 Thread mdh
o 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 > Dat

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. >>

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 c

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, b