Re: A great LAUGH for all Fedora users today

2009-12-31 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:43:04PM -0800, jdow wrote: Log in as Administrator (not the visible username.) Then change the user's password back to something useful. (ctl-alt-delete twice on the login page gives you the menu that has Administrator on it. It would take a fairly canny person to

Re: A great LAUGH for all Fedora users today

2009-12-31 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 20:58 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: Jim wrote: I was at the Super Walmart today in Indianapolis In., to check out the new Mini-laptops w/ MS7 and wanted to see how it look, all the laptops on display was asking for a PASSWOED, Ask a Walmart employee what was the

Re: A great LAUGH for all Fedora users today

2009-12-31 Thread Frank Murphy (Frankly3D)
On 31/12/09 14:18, Aaron Konstam wrote: One could always reboot to runlevel 1 and change back even the root passwd. -- You could always disable F button access during boot, and protect the bios. HD boot first. -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_8 Encoded. -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: A great LAUGH for all Fedora users today

2009-12-31 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:18:11 -0600 Aaron Konstam wrote: One could always reboot to runlevel 1 and change back even the root passwd. Some linux distros require you to type in the root password to continue to a shell in runlevel 1, but booting a live CD or rescue mode will work anyway. --

Re: A great LAUGH for all Fedora users today

2009-12-31 Thread Mikkel
On 12/31/2009 08:40 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:18:11 -0600 Aaron Konstam wrote: One could always reboot to runlevel 1 and change back even the root passwd. Some linux distros require you to type in the root password to continue to a shell in runlevel 1, but booting a

Re: A great LAUGH for all Fedora users today

2009-12-31 Thread Mikkel
On 12/30/2009 08:30 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Wednesday 30 December 2009 05:58 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Having someone change the Linux root password would be better how? I guess I don't know enough about Win7 to know why this is funny. I think he means the root password would prevent a user

Re: A great LAUGH for all Fedora users today

2009-12-31 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 08:00:13 -0600, Dave Ihnat dih...@dminet.com wrote: It's only marginally harder on a Linux system; just boot with the distro disk. Provided you know the password for the luks device / is on. And that you know the bios password to let you boot off alternate media or

Re: A great LAUGH for all Fedora users today

2009-12-31 Thread Don Quixote de la Mancha
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Jim mickey...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Ask a Walmart employee what was the password to check them out, she said some customer had changed all the passwords and they couldn't into them. This situation demands the Goatse Rescue Disk:

Re: A great LAUGH for all Fedora users today

2009-12-31 Thread suvayu ali
2009/12/31 Mikkel mik...@infinity-ltd.com: On 12/30/2009 08:30 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: On Wednesday 30 December 2009 05:58 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Having someone change the Linux root password would be better how? I guess I don't know enough about Win7 to know why this is funny. I think he

Re: A great LAUGH for all Fedora users today

2009-12-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
Aaron Konstam wrote: On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 20:58 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: Having someone change the Linux root password would be better how? I guess I don't know enough about Win7 to know why this is funny. One could always reboot to runlevel 1 and change back even the root passwd.

Re: A great LAUGH for all Fedora users today

2009-12-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
Jim wrote: I was at the Super Walmart today in Indianapolis In., to check out the new Mini-laptops w/ MS7 and wanted to see how it look, all the laptops on display was asking for a PASSWOED, Ask a Walmart employee what was the password to check them out, she said some customer had changed all

Re: A great LAUGH for all Fedora users today

2009-12-30 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Wednesday 30 December 2009 05:58 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Jim wrote: I was at the Super Walmart today in Indianapolis In., to check out the new Mini-laptops w/ MS7 and wanted to see how it look, all the laptops on display was asking for a PASSWOED, Ask a Walmart employee what was the

Re: A great LAUGH for all Fedora users today

2009-12-30 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 20:58 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: Having someone change the Linux root password would be better how? Boot to runlevel 1 and change it back. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To

Re: A great LAUGH for all Fedora users today

2009-12-30 Thread jdow
From: Frank Cox thea...@sasktel.net Sent: Wednesday, 2009/December/30 20:37 On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 20:58 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: Having someone change the Linux root password would be better how? Boot to runlevel 1 and change it back. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~