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I have put a site in maintenance mode. Before I could visit the administration pages as user #1 (which was the user account I was already using before to put the site in maintenance mode), I had to reset the computer; when I tried to visit the administration pages, Drupal didn't give me access to those pages.
I cannot change the content of the settings.php file because the installer tool that I used from the control panel for the domain probably created the files using credentials different from the ones I use to connect through FTP, which is the only way I have to upload files to the server, or change them.

Apart re-installing the Drupal files manually (and in a different directory), do I have over possibilities to access the administration pages?

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Have you tried after truncating all the cache tables? – AgA Jan 26 at 8:44
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You should be able to log in by going to http://example.com/user directly (or http://example.com/index.php?q=user if clean URLS are turned off).

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Once logged in, you can access the administrative pages by going to yourdomain.org/admin (or yourdomain.org/?q=admin) – teknikqa Mar 3 '11 at 21:59
For me it does not work. I tried mysite.com/?q=admin and mysite.com/admin assuming of course if user admin has administrative privileges. – Rafal Jan 1 at 12:35
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