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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