root account locked because of stupid move

[prale]

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.

[joximu]

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

[prale]

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...

[Cube]

Are you using Virtuosso? There the filesystem of your server is in a directory like /repair.

[prale]

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

[prale]

It's found the right file after I mounted hda3.
Hope this is the correct one.

[prale]

Problem solved, thanks guys!
This solution is better than reinstalling everything, and reconfiguring all ispcp accounts

[joximu]

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

[prale]

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.

[rbtux]

for future problems like that. It's better to remount the root-partition read-only before rebooting...