Re: Linux work in Tucson

From: Ryan Rix <phrkonaleash@gmail.com>
> Paul Mooring<drpppr242@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm looking for someone in Tucson to do some fairly minor linux
>> work, we have an old gateway server that needs a password reset
>> and ssh turned on.
> passwd && /etc/init.d/ssh start

The first won't work in some circumstances, like if everyone's
forgotten the root password to the box. In that case, you pretty
much have to boot to a rescue CD, chroot to where / was, and then
do passwd. Or reboot with "init=/bin/sh" in the kernel parameters
and mount / -o remount,rw , then do passwd. All of this is pretty
easy and doesn't require a consultant.

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