Good luck.
Scott Spence
Noggon Limited
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Alexander Feldman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> To increase security on of my machines I edited the /etc/securetty to
> allow root login only form tty1 to tty6. This way I made me and my cosysop
> to login as particular users and to say "su" when needed. This obviously
> was a good idea because I stopped doing things as root, which I could do
> with user privileges.
> The problem came when the root password expired. Now when I type "su" it
> denies the password and in the "/logs/syslog" is added a messeg "root
> password expired.". So now I'm unable to gain root and the machine is
> remote. If you don't help me this night (we are GMT-2) I have to go to the
> machine on the morning.
> Is there any idea of how to gain root access?
>
> Thank you very much in advance.
>
> -- Alexander Feldman
>
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