[2179] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: lost password and sniffer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cho Heeje)
Thu May 30 23:59:28 1996
From: Cho Heeje <heeje@speed.postech.ac.kr>
To: draw@hk.net (Bremen Lee)
Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 10:27:29 +1000 (KDT)
Cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <9605300944.AA04763@hk.net> from "Bremen Lee" at May 30, 96 05:44:40 pm
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
> I change the date of my digital unix and try to login root. However
> it say the account is expired. Then I boot it to single user mode
> and type passwd. It prompt "the account is expired, please contact
> account administrator" Is there any way I can restore the root
> password?
changing date is a little dangerous operation.
If other users are using the RCS and time dependent program,
they will be in a chaos.
If you are system administrator of your system, you will have to
careful in changing the date for some purposes.
--
Heeje Cho,
Data & Knowledge Engineering Laboratory,
Department of Industrial Engineering ,
Pohang University of Science and Technology ( Postech ),
San 31, Hyoja-Dong, Pohang, 790-784, KOREA
E-Mail: heeje@vision.postech.ac.kr
Room: Engineering Bg. 5-303( 0562-279-2857 )
Pager: 012-460-9130
