jer (@nyquildotorg's life raft🛟)Mar 25
I let my VPS run out of disk space. This prevents the ability to connect remotely with ssh, http, anything.

My provider *does*  provide a VNC connection direct to a tty, which would be really useful had I not disabled password auth for logins after getting popped by Bitcoin miners a few months back.

So now I'm going back and forth with incredibly slow customer support trying to see if they can edit sshd.conf to enable password auth so I can log in and delete a bunch of stuff.

(I pay less than $2/mo, so I can't complain too much about slow customer support.)
Show threadBoyd Stephen Smith Jr.Mar 25

@jer Any control over GRUB / kernel command line? With my root account disabled, when SSH isn't working to my VPS (@ Gandi) I have to `init=/bin/bash` are fix things from there sometimes.

Debian's recovery mode used to work pre-systemd, because it would recognize a disabled root and just give you a uid=0 shell. The systemd recovery mode still prompts for a password that does not exist.

Best of luck. Unexpected sysadmin of your own infrastructure is often joyless.

Show threadjer (@nyquildotorg's life raft🛟)Mar 25

@BoydStephenSmithJr I have no access to anything 😔

I have reboot and shut down buttons and that's it. (<$2 🤷)

Show threadBoyd Stephen Smith Jr.
@jer If you have access to the tty/console, and can reboot, and are using GRUB, you should be able to interact with the grub menu from there.
Mar 25 at 8:05pmWeb