Re: funny customers

From: Steve Lalonde (steve_at_enta.net)
Date: 09/22/04

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To: Per Engelbrecht <per@xterm.dk>

    Per Engelbrecht wrote:
    > Hi All
    >
    > I'm administering a mid-size serverhosting site and have a problem with
    > customers enabling root passwd in single-user mode.
    > It's the same customers that set up fake payment sites, do serious
    > hacking (i.e. not good, productive hacking) mailspamming and so on.
    >
    > In order to collect information for a criminal case (yes, in some cases
    > we go all the way) I need a way to get into these boxes (mostly
    > FreeBSD's) but I can't think of a way to disable the prompt for root
    > passwd in single-user mode.
    > Know it's a wildcard, but I've been looking at 'set' options under
    > 'boot' and a way to mount the serverdisk on another fbsd installation,
    > but without any luck.
    >
    > Any help would be appreciatet. Thank you.
    >
    > respectfully
    > /per
    > per@xterm.dk
    >
    >
    >
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    Hi

    Can you not remove the disk and mount it in an alternate box to get
    access to the data you need? 

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Steve Lalonde RTFM
Chief Technical Officer
Entanet International Ltd
http://www.enta.net/
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