Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 08:45:09 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson <drewt@writeme.com> To: "'Brian T. Schellenberger'" <bts@babbleon.org> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: Locked Out - How Might I Get In? Message-ID: <5CD46247635BD511B6B100A0CC3F023925A0D6@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov> In-Reply-To: <5CD46247635BD511B6B100A0CC3F0239014F5263@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Brian T. Schellenberger [mailto:bts@babbleon.org] > Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 6:46 PM > To: Drew Tomlinson; 'FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)' > Subject: Re: Locked Out - How Might I Get In? [snip] > 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.) Thanks. If was afraid of this but hoping there was something I didn't know about. Actually it won't be too difficult to get to the box and fix it. Now, where did I put that spare monitor and keyboard...? :) Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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