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root account locked because of stupid move - prale - 02-25-2008 02:42 AM
Hello I accidently dissabled my root login.
# vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config
Port 222
PermitRootLogin no
And I don't have another user than root :S
The only thing what I can do is boot in resque mode, then user root gets a random password and ssh port is at 22 again.
The problem is that I can't save changes to sshd_conf any more, because after a reboot is seems like the file before I moved into recovery mode is back again (port 222 for ssh).
Also the command adduser works, but I can't login with it.
I'm reconsidering a complete reinstall of debian an ispcp, but hopefully someone knows the trick to fix it.
RE: root account locked because of stupid move - joximu - 02-25-2008 02:52 AM
Hi
First: this is absolutely no ispcp question - rather SmallTalk.
Normally in rescue mode, you're no on your filesystem. This means you have to mount your / (root) Partition and then make the changes there. Then umount and reboot and then you're fine.
/J
RE: root account locked because of stupid move - prale - 02-25-2008 02:58 AM
I'm sorry that I must ask this, but can you simply explain how to mount that partition?
In the meantime I'll google some tutorials etc...
RE: root account locked because of stupid move - Cube - 02-25-2008 03:03 AM
Are you using Virtuosso? There the filesystem of your server is in a directory like /repair.
RE: root account locked because of stupid move - prale - 02-25-2008 03:06 AM
No just 1dedicated machine only.
I googled:
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
vi /mnt/etc/shadow
and I'm gonna try it, I hope /mnt/etc/ssh/ is also editable since I don't need to change the root passwd
RE: root account locked because of stupid move - prale - 02-25-2008 03:14 AM
It's found the right file after I mounted hda3.
Hope this is the correct one.
RE: root account locked because of stupid move - prale - 02-25-2008 03:27 AM
Problem solved, thanks guys!
This solution is better than reinstalling everything, and reconfiguring all ispcp accounts
RE: root account locked because of stupid move - joximu - 02-25-2008 03:28 AM
prale Wrote:It's found the right file after I mounted hda3.
Hope this is the correct one.
well - seems so - there won't be several /etc on the same hard disk.
It depends on where and how linux is installed.
read something about the linux basics then you're fine.
/J
RE: root account locked because of stupid move - prale - 02-25-2008 03:35 AM
Yes I know alot about php5 OOP, mysql and windows.
This is my first dedicated linux machine, and I also want to know everything about it.
So I guess i'll keep on reading available tutorials.
Thanx again for all help.
RE: root account locked because of stupid move - rbtux - 02-25-2008 03:57 AM
for future problems like that. It's better to remount the root-partition read-only before rebooting...