User password problem on a password policy applied box

m.roth at 5-cent.us m.roth at 5-cent.us
Mon Dec 28 16:11:53 UTC 2009


> He apparently has no passwords, user(s) or root.

Well, then if he has none of them, and he doesn't have physical access to
the box, or at least does, but can't bounce it, sounds like he needs to
call the real admins, or put in a trouble ticket, or whatever.

        mark
>
> On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 08:13 -0700, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>> > Ah, still not a problem. You can logon as Single User and reset the
>> root
>> > password.
>> <snip>
>> Except he said, to start, that it was a production server, and he could
>> not easily get permission to restart it.
>>
>> That being said, does the original poster have sudo power?
>>
>>       mark
>>
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