At 11:00 AM 6/3/02, praedor wrote:

>Well?  Pray-tell, how does one go about appending a new user to Passwd with
>UID 0?  Altering Passwd should itself require root priviledges - I cannot
>even get in to single user mode to do damage without my root passwd.  I
>haven't had to do it for a long time, but I believe this is also true when
>booting up with a CD and doing "rescue".

Correct about UID 0...

The rescue CD I use gives me root privileges.  It wouldn't be useful 
without them.  At the very least I need to mount partitions so I can rescue 
my system.  mount requires root privileges.

>Nonetheless, I would love to know how one could do as you describe.  Fill us
>in please.

I, too, am curious.

David


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