Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 12:17:19 -0500 (EST) From: Philip Mak <pmak@aaanime.net> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Stupid, stupid Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0110281215010.19082-100000@sg1.indexthis.net>
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I just did a stupid thing to lock myself out of one of my boxes that I only have remote ssh access to. I thought I'd share it with you guys so that no one else makes the same mistake. Never type "chmod o-rx .*" when logged in as root, inside root's home directory (/root). That will affect .. as well, meaning that the directory "/" will no longer be accessible to normal users. Now I can't ssh into my box (any attempt to connect will say "Cannot find root directory" and kick me out) to fix this, so I have to wait for the guy who has physical access to the box to fix it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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