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lola-granola root password fixed

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mhpower@MIT.EDU)
Mon Aug 1 18:16:56 1994

From: mhpower@MIT.EDU
To: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
Cc: jtkohl@MIT.EDU, svalente@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[0004] in NetBSD-Development"
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 94 18:16:00 EDT

>Standard SIPB root password.

>Sipb/"Security",* Sun Jul 31 1994 21:30:03
>svalente@LOLA-GRANOLA.MIT.EDU [Look at all those idiots!] Unauthentic
>
>In other news, root no longer has a valid password.  Anyone know how to bring
>up netbsd in single user mode?

It now has the same root password as the other office machines. This
would've been a lot easier if you'd allowed setuid execution from the
sipb cell. Was there a reason not to enable this security "feature"?

Matt

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