You should be able to get in with: root/rootpass and with any user that has sudoers access.

You might want to check your syslog to see if there is anything in there.

Hi
(my server is Ubuntu 10.04 LTS)

I recently had a (benign?) shell fork bomb incident, which I managed to correct with this command:

while (sleep 100 &!) do; done

However, my server now shows this document in my user directory, which was created at the time of the shell bomb:

sedd6GOTx

Anybody know what this might be?

I can't delete it nor can I open it with a text editor

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Holy necro'ed thread Batman!

You would be better off starting a new thread. I'll assume you meant to, but the click bombed as well.

Random files showing up an a directory makes me think the bomb was not so benign?

I would start with

 strings ~/sedd6GOTx | less