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Re: lost password and sniffer

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pierre-Yves Bonnetain)
Fri May 31 05:08:14 1996

Date: Fri, 31 May 96 08:45:27 +0100
From: pyb@silogic.fr (Pierre-Yves Bonnetain)
To: draw@hk.net
Cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <9605300944.AA04763@hk.net> (draw@hk.net)
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu

> From: draw@hk.net (Bremen Lee)
> Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 17:44:40 +0800 (HKT)
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> 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?
> 
> In fact, beside tcpdump, is there any sniffer program for digital
> unix??
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Bremen
> 
   This has nothing to do here.

-- 
-+-+ Pierre-Yves BONNETAIN (aka Pyb)
     Consultant Internet

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