Hi all,
I have a small problem on one of my dev boxes. I have a bod bootup ipfw
rulset and I find myself locked out of the machine.
There will be a technician at the NOC on Tuesday that will be able to
assist me.
My question is: Will he/she be able to simply reboot, logon as root as
normal?
- and then -
disable IPFW in rc.conf ... or will the loopback rule not being present
cause more mahem than I think it will?
-Grant
He should be able to login without any problems.
On another note, in the future whenever you make changes to your system that
could potentially lock you out, use crontab to disable them after a short
amount of time. For example, when I was reconfiguring sshd, I crontab'ed
'killall sshd && sshd -f /root/sshd_config_old' and moved the default config
file to my /root directory. Also when playing with my ipfw rules, I
crontab'ed 'ipfw disable firewall' for every 15 minutes until I got it
working the way I wanted too.
Be VERY careful with this though. Don't use it and then forget to remove the
lines from your /etc/crontab. Remove them as soon as you get it configured
the way you want too. This is obviously a serious security risk, so don't
use it very often. If you are worried about disabling your firewall, then
create a small ipfw script to deny all connections except from your IP
address and crontab that instead of 'ipfw disable firewall'. Also keep in
mind to enable your firewall again you will need to type 'ipfw enable
firewall'.
Bow Sineath
Class of 2006, the Citadel
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