Hello Howard, If you can't take it down I would be tempted to replace the box with another firewall temporarily and then use the root / boot disk to fix the password problem.
Not pretty, but chances are swapping cables for a few seconds won't cause a major problem. Dave On Tue, 2012-05-01 at 21:57 -0500, Howard White wrote: > Okay guys, I'm counting on you :) > > Jack alluded to my having a new job; systems admin in Nashville. We > have a Fedora 13 (ominous as a starting point, no?) box that is our > primary firewall. Somebody changed the root password and then left. I > have complete access to the system, console etc. Have not yet tried to > "rescue boot" with a live disk because it is the firewall gateway and we > need to keep things up. > > In the mean time, the reason we were trying to log into this system has > been resolved so I probably shouldn't fuss too much. Just something > reeeeal bad about not knowing the root password to the firewall... > > What cheeses me off more than anything is no appearance of a grub or > lilo prompt in the boot sequence at which to intercept for maintenance. > Deep juju or ??? > > Howard > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
