On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 15:40 -0800, Rick Shepherd wrote: > Two unrelated items: > > > > I have a guy who has lost his root password. As far as I know he has > to reinstall to reset the account. Am I right?
That's certainly the safest way depending upon who owns the system. If he isn't the systems sole owner I would advise him to resist the temptation of the other methods available. http://www.lightlink.com/spacenka/fors/ I know your not in Oregon but this is a little frightening none the less. Anyone needing to recover a password or planning a security scan on a system should read this. (not to mention any security practitioners planning to practice in Oregon). -- Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
