Ask HN: How to regain access to my dedicated server?

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12 years ago

The story: We are a team that uses a dedicated server Ubuntu 9.10 (don't say a word... "updates are for the weak"...) And the guy who was responsible for being a "sysop" recently disappeared into the abyss of dark sorcery of some kind or just watching cat videos on youtube. However he did not leave us any credentials to access the server and we need to ssh into it...

So far: I managed to find credentials to our server supplier from where I got the ips and ports we are using... Got a account for Lantronix spider KVM

I've got a working ftp account which has reading access to everything... From where I was able to see in /home directory some users...

Any input on what my options are?

P.S. All of this hustle to start the apache no comment!

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