At 08:42 PM 7/14/99 -0500, you wrote:
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>On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Jackal wrote:
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>> login as root and change the password for the user (unless it is the root
>> password that u forgot). If
>> it IS the root password that u forgot then u have to rebbot into single
mode
>> and change the root passwd from there...
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>...by typing "linux 1" at the "LILO boot:" prompt. You'll get a prompt
>like "bash-2.03$" and then do "passwd root" and enter the new password.
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>-Matt Stegman
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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I am not saying you are wrong because I cetainly do not know but How can
it be this easy to change the root password?! Seems that would be *very*
insecure. Anyone that can get to the keyboard can now get into and mess
anything up.
Aaron Winters, Electronic Imaging Manager
Garner Printing. http://camalott.com/~garner
