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From: vu0310@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (R. Kym Horsell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Getting to root when the password has been lost
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Date: 6 Sep 90 21:05:08 GMT
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Reply-To: vu0310@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu.cc.binghamton.edu (R. Kym Horsell)
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In article <24411@adm.BRL.MIL> SCEF0003%WSUVM1.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu (James N. Petersen) writes:
>Recently, we had a graduate student leave, after having changed the
>password for root on our UNIX V/3.2.2 system (AT&T UNIX/386).  Is there
>any way we can get in and reset the password to a known value?

The only sure-fire (unless you want to hack in & I'm not going to
send _anyone_ info like that) method is to boot the system from
floppy, tape, whatever, and mount the filesystem of interest
& then edit the /etc/passwd file.

-Kym Horsell
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