Re: shutdown problem

[Priyadi Iman Nurcahyo <priyadi priyadi ml org>]

On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 09:52:18AM -0900, Ramon Gandia wrote:
> 
> Of course, in your case, you cannot do this remotely....its
> catch-22.  You going to have to physically do it at the
> computer.  Bummer.  Perhaps....just perhaps.....you might be
> able to FTP the file over there, but I doubt that ftp will
> allow you access to the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file for writing.
> Worth trying, though.


if you have sshd running, you might be able to log in as root,
assuming that you didn't disable root login from ssh...
sshd will always allow root login even if /etc/nologin exists...