Locked out remotely

[Antony M Rasat]

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  
>   
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