Re: Locked out remotely

2006-03-03 Thread Antony M Rasat
The very reason why only administrator/wheel account is allowed to reboot or physically shutdown machines is because most likely they have physical access to those machines. If something went wrong - for example, booting script gone berserk - they can use single-user mode to fix it. Meaning, th

Re: Locked out remotely

2006-03-03 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
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 helpl

Locked out remotely

2006-03-03 Thread Angelo Christou
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