It is a tricky situation though, thorny would easily be able to grab his stuff too, and there's no real way to stop just that without tampering with data ergo, breaking the privacy policy.
Actually it's easier than you think, no one needs root access, and privacy policy doesn't come into it under the circumstances as it would be clients who own the data.
So Marks clear on it.
If I understand that correctly, I own the data because I paid for that space. I don't know. I hate being dragged through this because there are points made on both sides. All I need is just to get my files and go. There isn't a whole lot and it would be quick.
I have the passwords still and everything. I can barely afford $80, if I did, it would take me some time,and you are punishing me for his misdoings. I am sorry, but this is very unprofessional.
UT, I need to call bull----.
It would take less than 4 minuets to edit grub to boot without the root password or change the password using passwd. Maybe 15 minuets if you had some odd or complex authentication for the KVM. If you power up the server ftpd should be auto-started along with httpd. Perhaps you could rent the cost of powering the server up to fat tony. If you were ultra-nice, you would rent it to him at an hourly rate... Or even a daily rate.
When you bring a cPanel server up without a license, you have 30 days to get a license before cpanel is disabled. Perhaps you could do it as a favor should fat tony decide to purchase a shared hosting account from you.
Chris L.
PS: Here is how to login as root without a password: http://linuxgazette.net/107/tomar.html
This could all be over if I could receive what I need and leave.
fat tony:
Go to http://www.whois.sc/thorny'sdomainname.com
obviously replace the domain name. You may be able to get a phone number to call that guy.