[99619] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Forget root password, help.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Mon Nov 16 04:15:33 1998
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 03:42:30 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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Edward Ing wrote:
> 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.
Note that it is possible to change the administrator password on Windows NT
without having physical access, due to several bugs.
If you don't know that trick, and if you forget the administrator password on
NT,
guess what, you are going to wish you had Linux instead because you are going
to have to reinstall NT, all the packages and all the service packs and you
are going to have to reboot 17 times too. Enjoy the security!
--
Jan Carlson
janc@iname.com Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Mailed with Netscape 4.5 on Red Hat Linux 5.2
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