Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Instead of loading init, bash is loaded, giving you a root shell.
> Mount the root file system read/write, run passwd, then reboot.
Couldn't this break the filesystem?
Isn't a sync or remount as read-only needed?
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On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 11:42:44AM -0400, Carl Mummert wrote:
> Get 'tom's unix on a floppy' or any other linux boot disk. The debian
> rescue disk may work, but I never use ti so I don't know.
>
> Boot that floppy in your machine, and mount the partition of your
> hard disk that contains /etc on
* Shukuko Yono said:
> I need to know whether there are any methods of finding the root password
There are none. The standard Unix passwords are encrypted using a one-way
encryption algorithm using so the only way to test for password correctness
is to encrypt the provided password and compare it t
You probably can't derive the root password from info on your
system (if you could, then it would be easy to break in...)
But you can get around it as long as you have physical access to the machine.
Get 'tom's unix on a floppy' or any other linux boot disk. The debian
rescue disk may work, but
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