funny customers

[Steve Lalonde]

Per Engelbrecht wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I'm administering a mid-size serverhosting site and have a problem with
> customers enabling root passwd in single-user mode.
> It's the same customers that set up fake payment sites, do serious
> hacking  (i.e. not good, productive hacking) mailspamming and so on.
> 
> In order to collect information for a criminal case (yes, in some cases
> we go all the way) I need a way to get into these boxes (mostly
> FreeBSD's) but I can't think of a way to disable the prompt for root
> passwd in single-user mode.
> Know it's a wildcard, but I've been looking at 'set' options under
> 'boot'  and a way to mount the serverdisk on another fbsd installation,
> but without any luck.
> 
> Any help would be appreciatet. Thank you.
> 
> respectfully
> /per
> per at xterm.dk
> 
> 
> 
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Hi

Can you not remove the disk and mount it in an alternate box to get 
access to the data you need?

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Steve Lalonde RTFM
Chief Technical Officer
Entanet International Ltd
http://www.enta.net/