[Techtalk] ssh (and telnet) and missing 's' on keyboard

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Anne Wainwright wrote:

> <blushes> <bows head in shame>

I wouldn't hang my head in shame at all if I were you - it was an
excellent sleuthing job you did!

> well a little knowledge is a dangerous learning. whatever, 's' was
> the first letter of the added line. Whatever it did, it blanked of
> the 's' key, even on the server when I rebooted it. So no 'sudo'
> even to change it. No 'sudo reboot'. No 's' anything.
 
> But i telnet'd in while it was rebooting and before I logged in, and
> lady luck was on my side, I could sudo the editor and change it.

I'm glad you managed to get in! For future reference, you should be
able to copy and paste an s from somewhere into the terminal to do
the sudo command, but if you'd had one or more s in your password
you might been crewed <---[no s] if your telnet method hadn't worked.
(:

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.