Re: [CentOS] Lost root access

2011-02-03 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 9:44 AM, James Bensley jwbens...@gmail.com wrote: So on a virtual server the root password was no longer working (as in I couldn't ssh in anymore). Only I and one other know it and neither of us have changed it. No other account had the correct privileges to correct this

Re: [CentOS] Lost root access

2011-02-03 Thread James Bensley
On 2 Feb 2011 15:07, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: At Wed, 2 Feb 2011 14:44:01 + CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: So on a virtual server the root password was no longer working (as in I couldn't ssh in anymore). Only I and one other know it and neither of us

Re: [CentOS] Lost root access

2011-02-03 Thread James Bensley
On 2 Feb 2011 16:36, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Well, if you could get on the system at all, and had sudo privileges, no problem. mark No sudo priv's, remote VM so ssh only to a stanard user not in sudoers. --James. (This email was sent from a mobile device)

Re: [CentOS] Lost root access

2011-02-03 Thread Rafa Griman
Hi :) On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:44 PM, James Bensley jwbens...@gmail.com wrote: So on a virtual server the root password was no longer working (as in I couldn't ssh in anymore). Only I and one other know it and neither of us have changed it. No other account had the correct privileges to

Re: [CentOS] Lost root access

2011-02-03 Thread Giles Coochey
On 03/02/2011 14:40, Rafa Griman wrote: Hi :) On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:44 PM, James Bensleyjwbens...@gmail.com wrote: So on a virtual server the root password was no longer working (as in I couldn't ssh in anymore). Only I and one other know it and neither of us have changed it. No other

Re: [CentOS] Lost root access

2011-02-03 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:35 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: snip Well, if you could get on the system at all, and had sudo privileges, no problem. Well, the point was actually if you did not have sudo access to change the password, what else could you do. I.e., you had sudo to edit a particular

Re: [CentOS] Lost root access

2011-02-03 Thread Rafa Grimán
Hi :) On Thursday 03 February 2011 14:59 Giles Coochey wrote On 03/02/2011 14:40, Rafa Griman wrote: Hi :) On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:44 PM, James Bensleyjwbens...@gmail.com wrote: So on a virtual server the root password was no longer working (as in I couldn't ssh in anymore). Only I

Re: [CentOS] Lost root access

2011-02-03 Thread Robert Heller
At Thu, 3 Feb 2011 20:12:17 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Hi :) On Thursday 03 February 2011 14:59 Giles Coochey wrote On 03/02/2011 14:40, Rafa Griman wrote: Hi :) On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:44 PM, James Bensleyjwbens...@gmail.com wrote: So on a virtual

Re: [CentOS] Lost root access

2011-02-03 Thread m . roth
Rafa Grimán wrote: On Thursday 03 February 2011 14:59 Giles Coochey wrote On 03/02/2011 14:40, Rafa Griman wrote: On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:44 PM, James Bensleyjwbens...@gmail.com wrote: So on a virtual server the root password was no longer working (as in I couldn't ssh in anymore). Only

Re: [CentOS] Lost root access

2011-02-03 Thread Rafa Grimán
Hey !!! On Thursday 03 February 2011 20:42 Robert Heller wrote At Thu, 3 Feb 2011 20:12:17 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Hi :) On Thursday 03 February 2011 14:59 Giles Coochey wrote On 03/02/2011 14:40, Rafa Griman wrote: Hi :) On Wed, Feb 2, 2011

Re: [CentOS] Lost root access

2011-02-03 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 14:42 -0500, Robert Heller wrote: At Thu, 3 Feb 2011 20:12:17 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Yes, but S|Single|1 asks for root password to login ... And he doesn't have the root password ;) RedHat / RHEL / CentOS does not do that! At least

Re: [CentOS] Lost root access

2011-02-03 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Rafa Grimán rafagri...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 03 February 2011 20:42 Robert Heller wrote At Thu, 3 Feb 2011 20:12:17 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Hi :) On Thursday 03 February 2011 14:59 Giles Coochey wrote On 03/02/2011

Re: [CentOS] Lost root access

2011-02-03 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi James, On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 14:44 +, James Bensley wrote: So on a virtual server the root password was no longer working (as in I couldn't ssh in anymore). Any chance PermitRootLogin is set to no in /etc/ssh/sshd_config? Regards, Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna

[CentOS] Lost root access

2011-02-02 Thread James Bensley
So on a virtual server the root password was no longer working (as in I couldn't ssh in anymore). Only I and one other know it and neither of us have changed it. No other account had the correct privileges to correct this so I'm wondering, if I had mounted that vdi as a secondary device on another

Re: [CentOS] Lost root access

2011-02-02 Thread Giles Coochey
On 02/02/2011 15:44, James Bensley wrote: So on a virtual server the root password was no longer working (as in I couldn't ssh in anymore). Only I and one other know it and neither of us have changed it. No other account had the correct privileges to correct this so I'm wondering, if I had

Re: [CentOS] Lost root access

2011-02-02 Thread Robert Heller
At Wed, 2 Feb 2011 14:44:01 + CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: So on a virtual server the root password was no longer working (as in I couldn't ssh in anymore). Only I and one other know it and neither of us have changed it. No other account had the correct privileges to

Re: [CentOS] Lost root access

2011-02-02 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 9:44 AM, James Bensley jwbens...@gmail.com wrote: So on a virtual server the root password was no longer working (as in I couldn't ssh in anymore). Only I and one other know it and neither of us have changed it. No other account had the correct privileges to correct this

Re: [CentOS] Lost root access

2011-02-02 Thread m . roth
Kwan Lowe wrote: On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 9:44 AM, James Bensley jwbens...@gmail.com wrote: So on a virtual server the root password was no longer working (as in I couldn't ssh in anymore). Only I and one other know it and neither of us have changed it. No other account had the correct