From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Nov 2 12:29:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from bluerose.windmoon.nu (c255152-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.7.89.179]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 996D015328 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 12:29:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fengyue@bluerose.windmoon.nu) Received: from localhost (fengyue@localhost) by bluerose.windmoon.nu (Windmoon-Patched/8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA32037 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 12:34:28 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 12:34:28 -0800 (PST) From: FengYue To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root access problem help In-Reply-To: <199911012148.OAA50632@dexter.lcsd2.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Travis Stevenson wrote: > On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 06:51:52PM -0500, jahanur wrote: > > You know, if you have ssh installed on your system, you could ssh into the box > > and have it spawn a new shell.. ssh root@host.com '/bin/sh' or something of > > that sort should work. > > Wouldn't it be easier to shutdown into single user mode and reselect a shell? Probably not a nice thing to do if that's a production server. Or he can login as a regular user and use su -m To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message