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
Check the permissions on "/sbin/shutdown". If you are in the right
group to execute it (operator on my system) then you should be able to
shutdown -r, otherwise, short of exploiting any unpatched security holes
(joke!) you probably need physical access.
--Alex
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