[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Marvin T. Pascual wrote: >> >> But what if the "root" forgot his password? =) hehehe... >> > >without physical access, then hack into your own machine to get root. >=) >with physical access, boot to runlevel 1. or pass an init=/bin/sh to the boot-image before you fire it up to load the kernel into memory. As for the design "flaw," Thompson and Ritchie designed UNIX that way (with a single all-powerful account root) for simplicity's sake instead of using flashy and difficult to implement algorithms which would give them a hard time programming it. Paolo Falcone __________________________________ www.edsamail.com _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
