Hi Gerald, > On Saturday 02 March 2002 09:55 am, Jelmer Jellema wrote: > > > > But not if you, as I originally proposed, hacked that function out of the > > admin lib..... So if you would want to do that, you'd better not forget the > > root password, because the button would not work any more (unless you also > > changed pwreset as proposed...) > > > > excuse me, I missed that part of the thread. > If you forget the root password just boot in single user mode using the > console port and change the root password. > > Providing you have phy accesss to your RaQ.
All right, that's some tip, forgot you could do that or a RaQ. But then again: rereading /usr/local/sbin/pwreset is seems to me now that the root password is only blocked if it is not available in /etc/passwd.master. In my version, it is and it's open (it's not in the real password and shadow files). So, now I'm confused: it looks that after all pressing the button will clear the root password. My mistake, then. Is there anyone with a test RaQ 4 who could just test what this button does? Jelmer _______________________________________________ cobalt-security mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-security
