On 3 Apr, Orlando Andico wrote:
>
> Amazing as it may seem, I've *forgotten* the root password of a fairly
> important box. And there was no documentation. Is there a way to
> "screw" things to extract the root password *without* booting
> single-user? (going to single-user would cause a massive system outage)
>
Try to hack into your own system :). Look for any known exploits that
may grant you root access. You can't recover the root password then
but once you are root, you can change the root password to something in
the future you can hopefully remember better. And of course, plug the
hole after you're done. Promising one for Linux is wuftpd: has got a
serious bug that grants root...several systems here have been rooted
with this.
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