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Date:      Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:40:26 -0400
From:      Jon Radel <jon@radel.com>
To:        Benjamin Lee <ben@b1c1l1.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Locked out of Root
Message-ID:  <48FFF22A.7070309@radel.com>
In-Reply-To: <48FFEEAA.4060600@b1c1l1.com>
References:  <27ade5280810221955l6bb7fe23u504b008e6799fc57@mail.gmail.com> <48FFEEAA.4060600@b1c1l1.com>
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Benjamin Lee wrote:
> On 10/22/08 19:55, APseudoUtopia wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> 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.
> 
> Login as the unprivileged user and run:
> 
> $ su
> 
> See su(1).
> 
> 

Noting with care the following paragraph:

PAM is used to set the policy su(1) will use.  In particular, by default
only users in the ``wheel'' group can switch to UID 0 (``root'').  This
group requirement may be changed by modifying the ``pam_group'' section
of /etc/pam.d/su.  See pam_group(8) for details on how to modify this
setting.

which may well be why the OP keeps stressing that his unprivileged user
is not in the wheel group.  ;-)

--Jon Radel
jon@radel.com

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