Locked out remotely

[Alex Zbyslaw]

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
>  
>
Check the permissions on "/sbin/shutdown".  If you are in the right 
group to execute it (operator on my system) then you should be able to 
shutdown -r, otherwise, short of exploiting any unpatched security holes 
(joke!) you probably need physical access.

--Alex