Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 11:05:31 -0400 From: Sam Carleton <scarleton@miltonstreet.com> To: Sean Heber <sheber@mwci.net>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Can't become root.. Message-ID: <3981A13B.DBA487B2@miltonstreet.com> References: <001701bff8a3$2461f360$05172dc6@seanheber>
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Sean Heber wrote: > Ok, this is a stupid question and I fully understand if it's laughed at.. > :-) > > Last night I began an FTP install of FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE over my modem. > This morning it was done. So, I rebooted into it and added a new user for > myself. Then I went to work. > > My plan was to mess with installing the various ports and things I want > during free time at work. Since I have a modem, this takes a long time > (which is why I wanted to do this all at work so when I got home things were > ready to play with). > > Unfortuntatly, I forgot to put myself in the wheel group and so I can't su > to root. And root is, of course, not allowed to login via telnet by > default. So.. Is there ANY possible way around this or am I just stuck > until I get home? By any chance do you have sshd running on the machine? You can ssh in as root. -- Sam Carleton Please stop by http://www.maineville.net and help my local police force! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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