Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Feb 2000 19:53:45 -0800 (PST) | From | "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <> | Subject | Re: Capabilities |
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Hello Bill, If the system has a (bootable) floppy drive one can just boot the rescue disk & viola .... Hth, JimL
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Bill Wendling wrote: > Also sprach Paul Jakma: > } On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Linda Walsh wrote: > } > Just a data point, but when I have trusted IRIX installed, > } > there is no booting up in non-trusted mode. Capabilities are in > } > effect even in single-user. > } Same with Digital/Tru64 Unix. It runs trusted all the way. And if you > } lose the root password you are pretty much screwed... :) > A friend of mine thought up a unique way to get around (maybe) losing the > root password. > Remove the HD from the fscked machine and mount it on another machine. > Then change the shadow file's password for root to * (or whatever "no > password" is). Then return the HD to the other machine. > Voila! Root access :). > -- > || Bill Wendling wendling@ganymede.isdn.uiuc.edu +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS | | Network Engineer | 25416 22nd So | Give me Linux | | babydr@baby-dragons.com | DesMoines WA 98198 | only on AXP | +----------------------------------------------------------------+
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