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
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