Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 21:46:04 -0400 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: "Drew Tomlinson" <drewt@writeme.com>, "'FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Locked Out - How Might I Get In? Message-ID: <01092521460400.00588@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <5CD46247635BD511B6B100A0CC3F023925A0CD@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov> References: <5CD46247635BD511B6B100A0CC3F023925A0CD@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov>
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On Tuesday 25 September 2001 13:10, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> I posted the message at the bottom but did not get an answer yet so I
> attempted to continue on my own. After unsuccessful attempts to compile
> the part I need, I tried an upgrade from /stand/sysinstall. My plan was to
> get a working system and then cvsup and recompile.
>
> I'm doing this remotely and in the process of the upgrade, I lost my
> connection. The last I saw, the upgrade was doing the ports collection.
>
> I can connect to the machine now and get a login prompt but none of my
> previous accounts seem to exist. Is there a default account (root?) that I
Root will have an account, but the password is unpredicable. It might be
NULL, but usually remote logins are disabled for root anyway.
> can use to login? What is the password? I can connect using either telnet
> or ssh.
To recover from disasters like this, you really need physical access to the
machine; then you can reboot in single-user machine and fix things up.
On any machine with properly configured security, you are SOL. (If you can
break in without knowing any working userids and passwords, so can anybody
else, so if things are set up properly you're out of luck.)
>
> The previous version was 4.3-STABLE built sometime in April. The upgrade
> was to 4.4-RELEASE.
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Drew
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Drew
> > Tomlinson
> > Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 2:26 PM
> > To: FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)
> > Subject: Help! -- I Deleted libcrypt.so.2
> >
> >
> > I was following the advice of an earlier email about deleting
> > some stuff
> > that is no longer needed. However, it appears I deleted
> > /usr/lib/libcrypt.so.2 by mistake. I found this out when I
> > attempted to
> > telnet to it. So I copied it from another machine but still could not
> > telnet. I get the following error:
> >
> > blacklamb# telnet blacksheep
> > Trying 192.168.0.2...
> > Connected to blacksheep.mykitchentable.net.
> > Escape character is '^]'.
> > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/lib/libcrypt.so.2: Shared object has no
> > run-time symbol table
> > Connection closed by foreign host.
> >
> > Because I was planning to upgrade to 4.4 (currently 4.3), I
> > started the
> > upgrade thinking it would rebuild whatever was needed. But my make
> > buildworld failed with the following error:
> >
> > /usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot find -lcrypt
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > How can I recover from my mistake?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Drew
> >
> >
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