From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 3 15:02:57 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 375D416A420 for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2006 15:02:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anton@kaltengpos.com) Received: from mail.radartarakan.com (251.subnet214.astinet.telkom.net.id [203.130.214.251]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62B5243D4C for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2006 15:02:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anton@kaltengpos.com) Received: from WorldClient by radartarakan.com (MDaemon.PRO.v7.2.0.R) with ESMTP id md50000017851.msg for ; Fri, 03 Mar 2006 23:09:15 +0800 Received: from [203.130.214.252] via WorldClient with HTTP; Fri, 03 Mar 2006 23:09:11 +0800 Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 23:09:11 +0800 From: "Antony M Rasat" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Message-ID: X-Mailer: WorldClient 7.2.0 X-Authenticated-Sender: anton@kaltengpos.com X-Spam-Processed: radartarakan.com, Fri, 03 Mar 2006 23:09:15 +0800 (not processed: message from valid local sender) X-MDRemoteIP: 203.130.214.251 X-Return-Path: anton@kaltengpos.com X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-MDAV-Processed: radartarakan.com, Fri, 03 Mar 2006 23:09:16 +0800 Subject: Re: Locked out remotely 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: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 15:02:57 -0000 The very reason why only administrator/wheel account is allowed to reboot or physically shutdown machines is because most likely they have physical access to those machines. If something went wrong - for example, booting script gone berserk - they can use single-user mode to fix it. Meaning, that machine's physical console. So, for your dillema, I guess you need to ask that beast' admins to let you in again. Regards, Anthony M. Rasat PT. Kalteng Pos Press Palangkaraya - Indonesia.- On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 05:18 -0800, Angelo Christou wrote: Hello list. I have a regular user account on a remote > box running FreeBSD 6 and I need to reboot it. The > user account is not part of the wheel group. I have > the root password for local login but I cant su (su: > Sorry). Is there anything at all I can do or am I > totally helpless until I can access the datacenter > where the server is? > > Any ideas at all would be most helpful. I think I'm > screwed. Thankyou > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >