[99655] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Forget root password, help.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dreamwvr)
Mon Nov 16 12:39:01 1998
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 10:26:13 -0700
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...and then there was one;')
At 03:42 AM 11/16/98 -0500, Jan Carlson wrote:
>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!
>
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>Jan Carlson
>janc@iname.com Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
>Mailed with Netscape 4.5 on Red Hat Linux 5.2
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Reuters, London, February 29, 1998:
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earth in March, 2028. Millions of UNIX coders expressed relief for being
spared the UNIX epoch "crisis" of 2038.
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