Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:35:52 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: Michael Williams <gberz3@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HOW TO: Enabling root on a new server? Message-ID: <20070713033552.GA86758@eos.sc1.parodius.com> In-Reply-To: <C1E64C06-448C-460A-9DFF-BA0A4E60652D@gmail.com> References: <C1E64C06-448C-460A-9DFF-BA0A4E60652D@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 11:06:07PM -0400, Michael Williams wrote: > I recently purchased a co-located server from Cedant and need to enable the > root user. It's running FreeBSD 6.1. Currently there appears to be no root > user enabled on the server. I can't even "su" to root. I've tried using > "pw" to add my user to "wheel" but I receive a warning informing me that I > must be root to even do such a thing. You can see my quandary. Please > advise. FreeBSD, out-of-the-box, definitely includes user "root", and there is no password (unless during the installation you choose to set one). This sounds like a question you should be talking to Cedant/your provider about. What you purchased may not be a real co-located box that's personally dedicated to you -- it may be something shared with other people, and something that Cedant maintains. This is purely speculative on my part, because I know nothing about their services. But this really does sound like something specific to their servers. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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