From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 23 11:45:06 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EA3B106567F for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:45:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 560A08FC2B for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:45:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 10303 invoked from network); 23 Oct 2008 11:45:05 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 23 Oct 2008 11:45:05 -0000 Received: from lowell-desk.lan (lowell-desk.lan [172.30.250.6]) by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7597A50820; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:44:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: by lowell-desk.lan (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 083D11CEB7; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:44:58 -0400 (EDT) To: APseudoUtopia References: <27ade5280810221955l6bb7fe23u504b008e6799fc57@mail.gmail.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:44:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: <27ade5280810221955l6bb7fe23u504b008e6799fc57@mail.gmail.com> (apseudoutopia@gmail.com's message of "Wed\, 22 Oct 2008 22\:55\:19 -0400") Message-ID: <444p33pmbp.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Locked out of Root X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:45:06 -0000 APseudoUtopia 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/