Re: [plug] [OT] root password recovery

[Jeff Gutierrez]

Orly,

Do you have other accounts w/ root access?  If so, you can change the
password..  (just checking..)

Do you have sudo installed in the box?  If you login as the user that can
sudo.. then replace the executable file w/ a script that changes/resets
the root password.

If that doesn't work, and you can get in as a user that can modify the 
/etc/shadow file, you can place a known hash in the password field..

Is the machine trusted by another machine?? or the other way round?? is 
there any NFS or samba mounts on the root fs??

HTH

jeff --

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