The box is @ the data center 200 miles away from me - can't have physical access. All I have is the ssh console. Cannot re-authenticate either. Data Center ppl aren't allowed to make configuration changes! All they can do is reboot the machine.

Here's what I wanted to do:
Reverse SCP (Don't know if it even exists) --- Basically, I'd do scp user@box1.ny:/lib* . sitting on '/' at my local box  to copy those files to the pwd, accept the key and authenticate. Since no scp command was recognized any longer, I instead tried scp /lib* user@box1.ny:/
Obviously that didn't work. First -- the command wasn't right; and secondly - the screwed up box didn't understand 'authentication' concept anymore.

If only I could install a backdoor - netcat or something and temporarily open a port; I could transfer libraries from another machine. That's not a possibility either, as it doesn't recognize any installation commands, and there's no way of pushing netcat, even though I currently have shell access to it.

I still don't want to say I'm screwed. Perhaps connection through iLO? Anyone?

BTW, it's a Red Hat Enterprise 5.

~@~

PS: Please stick to the topic --- me, and I bet a thousand others would appreciate that one way or the other. We can have a separate thread on those discussions. Peace!