On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:05 PM, David R. Wilson da...@wwns.com wrote:
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.
The other possibility is to do it now; i.e. at 2am Central
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Howard White hwh...@vcch.com 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
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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
On 05/02/2012 07:48 AM, Jon Moore wrote:
It's been a while since I've used Fedora, but as I recall it doesn't
show the grub menu by default and has an extremely short timeout
period. Pressing the ESC or similar should cause the menu to appear.
There is a sweet spot between POSTing and grub
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Failing to get to grub will then cause me to boot the machine from a
live disk and go at things that way. The custom here seems to be to
create a boot partition and then lump all remaining space into lvm. I
don't know who's bright idea that was...
Howard
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
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