Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!vsi1!altos86!dtynan From: dtynan@altos86.Altos.COM (Dermot Tynan) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: default passwords Message-ID: <3464@altos86.Altos.COM> Date: 30 Jun 89 22:59:52 GMT References: <18774@louie.udel.EDU> Organization: Altos Computer Systems, San Jose, CA Lines: 37 In article <18774@louie.udel.EDU>, jnall%FSU.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu (John Nall 904-644-5241) writes: > Iain Wacey writes: > > Could someone please send me the defulat (sic) passwords for the > > ast and root accounts for MinixINIX 1.1. ... > > This issue has come up before, and the general concensus of the net seemed > to be that someone only (legally) obtains the software by buying > the book (or the manual), and that anyone without with book (or > manual) has to be suspect. > > John Nall This is codswallop!!! There is no such consensus. The reason AST doesn't make the password available is so he can sell more books. This is reasonable (almost :). Prentice-Hall offers the disks by themselves, or with the book. Seeing as some of us consider ourselves overburdened with OS books, we buy just the disks (that's what I did!). Why should we now have to buy the book just for the root password. I ended up reading the disk a block at a time, under MS-DOS, until I found the password file, and then modified the 'root' entry. This is not something I would recommend. Furthermore, there is a comment (somewhere) that says you can make limited copies of the disk set. Perhaps the original poster has such a 'limited' copy. I can't think of the password offhand, but if you don't put the user disk in, when prompted, it will fork a shell, and you can change the password. Just remember to copy the password file (/etc/passwd) to the root floppy!! I'm sure this will help more than Mr. Nalls' comment! - Der -- dtynan@altos86.Altos.COM (408) 946-6700 x4237 Dermot Tynan, Altos Computer Systems, San Jose, CA 95134 "Far and few, far and few, are the lands where the Jumblies live..."