From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 14 13:18:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from picusnet.com (mail.picusnet.com [207.7.90.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83C6937B5F2 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 13:18:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wdf@picusnet.com) Received: from picusnet.com [209.96.235.136] by picusnet.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-5.05) id ACF9300112; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 16:18:01 -0400 Received: from picusnet.com (localhost.picusnet.com [127.0.0.1]) by picusnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA01224; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 16:11:20 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wdf@picusnet.com) Message-ID: <38F77B67.E2FCA215@picusnet.com> Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 16:11:20 -0400 From: William Freeman X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Ryugen C. Fisher" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: single user mode -- from afar References: <4.3.1.2.20000414145301.00a85b30@mail.palaver.org> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------733A22BD22FFFD9929908190" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --------------733A22BD22FFFD9929908190 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit single user mode has no network access, plus you have to hand-mount file systems from the console. if you could log in accross the network, than telnetd would have to be running which defeats the purpose of 'single user mode' as daemons are considered users. "Ryugen C. Fisher" wrote: > This may seem to be "real dumb" BUT, I would like to be able to boot a > FreeBSD 3.3 server about 600 miles from here into single user mode.. and > access it via its IP addy/telnet to maintenance. It this at all possible? > Do I need a program other than telnet to use for this sort of remote admin? > > TIA > > Ryugen, that "Old Frog" hisself > Ryugen@palaver.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- William D. Freeman (wdf@picusnet.com) http://members.xoom.com/EvilGNU -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GU d- s+:+ a--- C++ UB+++ P+ L- E--- W+ N o-- K- w--- O- M- V-- PS+ PE++ Y-- PGP-- t++ 5-- X+++ R tv- b+ DI++++ D--- G- e- h! r-- !y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ --------------733A22BD22FFFD9929908190 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit single user mode has no network access, plus you have to hand-mount file systems from the console.  if you could log in accross the network, than telnetd would have to be running which defeats the purpose of 'single user mode' as daemons
are considered users.
 

"Ryugen C. Fisher" wrote:

This may seem to be "real dumb" BUT, I would like to be able to boot a
FreeBSD 3.3 server about 600 miles from here into single user mode.. and
access it via its IP addy/telnet to maintenance. It this at all possible?
Do I need a program other than telnet to use for this sort of remote admin?

TIA

Ryugen, that "Old Frog" hisself
Ryugen@palaver.org

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