On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Jeff Gutierrez wrote:
..
> 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??
It's virtually a stock Solaris7 setup with almost all the ports closed. No
NFS, no nothing, since it's a dedicated Oracle box.
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