Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 23:09:11 +0800 From: "Antony M Rasat" <anton@kaltengpos.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Locked out remotely Message-ID: <WorldClient-F200603032309.AA09110001@kaltengpos.com>
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The very reason why only administrator/wheel account is allowed to reboot or physically shutdown machines is because most likely they have physical access to those machines. If something went wrong - for example, booting script gone berserk - they can use single-user mode to fix it. Meaning, that machine's physical console. So, for your dillema, I guess you need to ask that beast' admins to let you in again. Regards, Anthony M. Rasat PT. Kalteng Pos Press Palangkaraya - Indonesia.- On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 05:18 -0800, Angelo Christou wrote: Hello list. I have a regular user account on a remote > box running FreeBSD 6 and I need to reboot it. The > user account is not part of the wheel group. I have > the root password for local login but I cant su (su: > Sorry). Is there anything at all I can do or am I > totally helpless until I can access the datacenter > where the server is? > > Any ideas at all would be most helpful. I think I'm > screwed. Thankyou > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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