Hello, I've got a terrible problem. After reading up on `sudo` and looking at archived emails on [debian-user], I came to the conclusion that a nice way of having multiple admins on my server is to use `sudo` to give them powers and then lock the root user.
Unfortunately, on Debian this leads to a deadly situation. In the event of a failed fsck, Debian gives you the bog standard, "Enter root password to continue (or press Ctrl-D)" message. The problem is that the root user is locked. There is simply no password. `Ctrl-D` just restarts the OS. To make it worse, this computer is a VPS running on VMWare, hundreds of kilometres from me. The set up being fairly unusual, the sysadmins aren't sure what to do. They can get to the bootloader, but can't mount the drive elsewhere (limitation of the VMDK format) or do anything of that sort. Any advice would be appreciated. I'm having that horrible sinking feeling right now. Regards, -- Roshan George <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
