m0nty

was following the ssh security guide in this forum and made the changes necessary.. restarted added 2 users to the wheel group etc.. then restarted sshd

now i can't login to ssh, keep getting access denied..

took me the whole of half an hour to lock myself out.. lol

think that beats davids record..

john

A new Linux admin joins us...

Welcome aboard.

Don't feel like you've paid your dues by locking yourself out of the machine. There's far worse to come. You still haven't had an rm -r, chown -r, or chmod -r experience yet (notice the -r in all of the examples. Beware of the -r, I'm telling you).

Trust me, there's rough waters ahead. But it's worth it.

I hope you've put in a support ticket. They should be able to login from the console and get you back up. Worst case, they can boot off of a cd and undo the damage. Embarrassing, perhaps. Permanent, no.

John

David

I did the same thing with that guide actually. I didn't add the user correctly it turned out. Contact support. They have to get an inhouse person to fix it, because if you removed access from the root user, no one will be able to get in unless they have direct access to the machine.

m0nty

thanks all

have put a ticket in.. mind you, i guess it's pretty much secure at mo.. haha just a little bit too secure :S

David

haha, yeah really

m0nty

finally sorted the site..

but i seemed to have crashed the server now, and can't remote reboot it.. lol

great start to the week..

David

ahahaha, sounds like you're reading my "How to Kill Your Server Efficiently" manual.

john

Have you tried "rm -rf * from /?

Works really well until it hits the rm command.

John

m0nty

lmao.. so you wrote it then.. that's it, i can blame you now :P