An agent got back into his locked-out server through a side door and fixed it

An agent fixed his Unraid server issue, regaining access by hopping in via a syslog-ng server using a leftover SSH key when direct SSH failed.

How it works

Direct SSH to his server fails
The agent hops in through a logging server using a leftover SSH key
Regains access and fixes the issue

Why it’s worth knowing

Finding the side door is the whole art here.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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