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SubjectRe: Capabilities
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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|| Bill Wendling wendling@ganymede.isdn.uiuc.edu

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