From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 28 8: 5:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ipass.one.net (news2.one.net [206.112.192.118]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35B5637BC20 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 08:05:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scarleton@miltonstreet.com) Received: from miltonstreet.com (ws11.syner.com [63.84.188.11] (may be forged)) by ipass.one.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA26170; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 11:05:25 -0400 Message-ID: <3981A13B.DBA487B2@miltonstreet.com> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 11:05:31 -0400 From: Sam Carleton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sean Heber , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Can't become root.. References: <001701bff8a3$2461f360$05172dc6@seanheber> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sean Heber wrote: > Ok, this is a stupid question and I fully understand if it's laughed at.. > :-) > > Last night I began an FTP install of FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE over my modem. > This morning it was done. So, I rebooted into it and added a new user for > myself. Then I went to work. > > My plan was to mess with installing the various ports and things I want > during free time at work. Since I have a modem, this takes a long time > (which is why I wanted to do this all at work so when I got home things were > ready to play with). > > Unfortuntatly, I forgot to put myself in the wheel group and so I can't su > to root. And root is, of course, not allowed to login via telnet by > default. So.. Is there ANY possible way around this or am I just stuck > until I get home? By any chance do you have sshd running on the machine? You can ssh in as root. -- Sam Carleton Please stop by http://www.maineville.net and help my local police force! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message