Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Feb 2000 02:26:13 -0600 | From | Bill Wendling <> | Subject | Re: Capabilities |
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Also sprach Mr. James W. Laferriere: } } 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: [snip] } > 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 :).
I suppose that would work as well...:)
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