Re: [cobalt-users] Password changed for root?

["Christian Glockner" <mail@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Dennis,

how exactly did you do that?
I just tried resetting the password physically today, but all that changed
was the admin password, not root's.

Yours,
Christian
----- Original Message -----
From: Dennis <dkc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2000 4:27 AM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Password changed for root?


> This problem happened to us once. The only way to get it resolved was to
bring
> the system down into single user mode which can only be done via the
serial port
> on the machine.
>
> Christian Glockner wrote:
>
> > Hello Sven,
> >
> > I just checked and found one httpd process with user root.
> > The others are all owned by httpd, as configured in httpd.conf.
> > All the ahttpd processes are owned by root. So what I tried was copy a
> > script to /usr/admserv/cgi-bin which doesn't work out, as expected.
> >
> > Is there any chance to get the pass working again without driving 300
> > kilometers?
> > BTW: This already happened before a few days ago, that time a reboot
helped
> > out...
> >
> > Yours
> > Christian
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: ChaosIndustries <chaosindustries@xxxxxx>
> > To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 7:47 PM
> > Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Password changed for root?
> >
> > > think the only way is to hack into your own system.
> > >
> > > But when changing over the gui dowsnt work, so try out the last 3 or
> > > 4 passes you used, maybe the last change didnt worked too.
> > >
> > > check out with 'ps -Af ' if the httpd runs on user root.
> > > If so you can write a cgi to change the root pass and exucte that over
> > > port 81 with the browser, so the cgi have rootpermissons on the system
> > > and can write your rootpw back.
> > >
> > > Greets Sven
> > >
> > > Christian Glockner schrieb:
> > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > i just wanted to log into the box (raq2) as admin and then su to
root.
> > > > Logging in as admin was no problem, but su replies to my
password-entry
> > with
> > > > "incorrect password". I have tried this many times, but it does not
work
> > > > out, though. I did not change anything, and changing the admin
password
> > via
> > > > the GUI does not change anything. I know I could reset the password
> > > > physically, but unfortunately the machine is remotely hosted, so
that
> > > > doesn't come into decision.
> > > >
> > > > Anyone any tips?
> > > >
> > > > TIA
> > > > Yours,
> > > > Christian
> > > >
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