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Major Linux Help Please!	by MatthewDBA	2006-09-07 13:43:15
I'm remotely administering a server about 60 miles away. It has to be up. Unfortunately, I seem to have accidentally configured the firewall (iptables) to drop all incoming packets except those on localhost. I was just on the line with the tech and he couldn't log in with what I swear was the root password. Is there any way I can get around this to somehow reset the root password? I can't find any other users (with permission to log in locally) in the root group.
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Log in as a regular user, then su	by Stuka	2006-09-07 13:48:10
No	by MatthewDBA	2006-09-07 13:53:18
pending on the distro	by langly	2006-09-07 13:57:20
note the user has to be in the "wheel" group	by Freakazoid	2006-09-07 15:45:49
I thought that was only on gentoo?	by Sharku	2006-09-07 15:48:19
it's like that on all distros	by Freakazoid	2006-09-07 15:49:36
No, not by default on RH/Fedora.	by nix	2006-09-07 16:17:41
Um, no, it's not.	by bwkaz	2006-09-07 16:17:42
No, the wheel group is from BSD, it is not native	by vdp	2006-09-07 21:30:13
go into single user mode and reset	by imrambi	2006-09-07 14:03:34
every single user mode i've seen	by Freakazoid	2006-09-07 15:48:52
Could pass init=/bin/bash to the kernel instead of	by bwkaz	2006-09-07 16:19:37
How did you configure iptables?	by NemoHac	2006-09-07 15:40:27
that was my solution when I borked iptables	by Freakazoid	2006-09-07 15:52:18

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