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From: aeba-im-o-e2@berlin-emh1.army.mil ( Kendrick Gibson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re:  Getting to root when the password has been lost
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Date: 7 Sep 90 08:23:39 GMT
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Maybe you can boot from a backup tape.
Either the original or a recent backup tape that you know 
the password of.

Just a suggestion-  we have a sector on our hard drive that
has root without a password.  We could boot from it if necessary.
Of course we have to trust anyone with physical access to our
computer not to reboot it and set themself up as superuser.
If/when you do get in, you might consider copying root to an
unmounted slice.

Ken Gibson
aeba-im-o-e2@berlin-emh1.army.mil
I'd rather be telecommuting.
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