[99572] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Forget root password, help.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward Ing)
Sun Nov 15 19:08:44 1998
From: "Edward Ing" <ingal@home.com>
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Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 19:11:48 -0500
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Linux thus seems quite insecure.
If someone has physical access to your machine, they could go in and change
your root password on you. You of course could change it backe when you
noticed something went wrong, but within that time he could have done
something horrible.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Domingue <jer@cybersurfers.net>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Cc: nupt89@hotmail.com <nupt89@hotmail.com>
Date: Sunday, November 15, 1998 7:04 PM
Subject: RE: Forget root password, help.
>Have you tried booting in single user mode? At the LILO prompt, just type
in
>'linux 1' (assuming that you kept the default label of 'linux' for your
>linux partition).
>
>Jeremy Domingue
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