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Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 08:45:09 -0700
From: Drew Tomlinson <drewt@writeme.com>
Subject: RE: Locked Out - How Might I Get In?
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To: "'Brian T. Schellenberger'" <bts@babbleon.org>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian T. Schellenberger [mailto:bts@babbleon.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 6:46 PM
> To: Drew Tomlinson; 'FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)'
> Subject: Re: Locked Out - How Might I Get In?

[snip]

> Root will have an account, but the password is unpredicable.
> It might be
> NULL, but usually remote logins are disabled for root anyway.
>
> > can use to login?  What is the password?  I can connect
> using either telnet
> > or ssh.
>
> To recover from disasters like this, you really need physical
> access to the
> machine; then you can reboot in single-user machine and fix things up.
>
> On any machine with properly configured security, you are
> SOL.  (If you can
> break in without knowing any working userids and passwords,
> so can anybody
> else, so if things are set up properly you're out of luck.)

Thanks.  If was afraid of this but hoping there was something I didn't know
about.  Actually it won't be too difficult to get to the box and fix it.
Now, where did I put that spare monitor and keyboard...?  :)

Drew


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