Locked out of Root

[Lowell Gilbert]

APseudoUtopia <apseudoutopia at gmail.com> writes:

> I have one user (other than root and the other system users) on my
> box, and that user is _NOT_ in the wheel group. I also have root
> logins disabled via SSH. This is a remote server and all I have is SSH
> access.
>
> Is there any way that I can gain root? I know the root password and
> everything, but I just can't get to it. The user is not in the wheel
> group, and root login is disabled in SSH.
>
> Thanks for any help/advice.

You'll need to reboot in single-user mode.
E.g.,
http://be-well.ilk.org/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#SU-WHEEL-GROUP

-- 
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
		http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/