[2196] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: lost password and sniffer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Needle)
Sun Jun 2 11:49:26 1996
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 16:48:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jeff Needle <needle@ibg.ljo.dec.com>
To: Bremen Lee <draw@hk.net>
Cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <9605300944.AA04763@hk.net>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Sounds like you're running with C2 Security enabled. The simplest way to
reset your password is to just temporarily set the date back in single
user mode, change your password, then reset the date.
Jeff Needle, Digital
> 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?
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