This is after the fact apparently (from your email) but you might want
to try "sudo" in the future to accomplish your access.
Otherwise, I'm not sure there is a conventional way to fix your problem
at the moment unless you crack your machine (which is fun... ). Depending
on your OS version ya might want to check the popular crack sites.
This would give you the excuse to secure your machine at the same time.
I've done it before. :)
If you were running Solaris, the password would be : bufferoverflow :)
Melvin
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To: Scott Spence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Root password expired
The problem is not gaining root access at all. The problem is gaining root
access via telnet. If I go to the console of the machine it will not be
any problem to login from the console and revalidate the root password.
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Scott Spence wrote:
> if you reboot in single user mode you could edit any files again to
> correct the problem. when lilo boots type 'linux single' (or something
> similar, the 'single' part is most important).
>
> Good luck.
>
> Scott Spence
> Noggon Limited
>
>
>
> On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Alexander Feldman wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > To increase security on of my machines I edited the /etc/securetty to
> > allow root login only form tty1 to tty6. This way I made me and my
cosysop
> > to login as particular users and to say "su" when needed. This
obviously
> > was a good idea because I stopped doing things as root, which I could
do
> > with user privileges.
> > The problem came when the root password expired. Now when I type "su"
it
> > denies the password and in the "/logs/syslog" is added a messeg "root
> > password expired.". So now I'm unable to gain root and the machine is
> > remote. If you don't help me this night (we are GMT-2) I have to go to
the
> > machine on the morning.
> > Is there any idea of how to gain root access?
> >
> > Thank you very much in advance.
> >
> > -- Alexander Feldman
> >
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