Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:59:15 -0700 (PDT) From: mdh <mdh_lists@yahoo.com> To: APseudoUtopia <apseudoutopia@gmail.com>, Benjamin Lee <ben@b1c1l1.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Locked out of Root Message-ID: <413635.33527.qm@web56803.mail.re3.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <48FFEEAA.4060600@b1c1l1.com>
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He said his unprivileged user isn't in the wheel group.
To answer the initial question, you'll need to login to the system on the local console. You cannot get root access via the network unless you're running another remote access service besides ssh which will allow you to login as root directly.
- mdh
--- On Wed, 10/22/08, Benjamin Lee <ben@b1c1l1.com> wrote:
> From: Benjamin Lee <ben@b1c1l1.com>
> Subject: Re: Locked out of Root
> To: "APseudoUtopia" <apseudoutopia@gmail.com>
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 11:25 PM
>
> Login as the unprivileged user and run:
>
> $ su
>
> See su(1).
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