Locked out remotely
Antony M Rasat
anton at kaltengpos.com
Fri Mar 3 07:02:57 PST 2006
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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