Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!ucbvax!agate!linus!nixbur!nixpbe!peun33!mboen From: mboen@nixpbe.UUCP (Martin Boening) Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: Getting to root when the password has been lost Message-ID: Date: 18 Sep 90 09:53:41 GMT References: <24411@adm.BRL.MIL> <7961@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> <253@twg.wimsey.bc.ca> Sender: news@nixpbe.nixdorf.de Lines: 26 In <253@twg.wimsey.bc.ca> bill@twg.wimsey.bc.ca (Bill Irwin) writes: >In <7961@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> ars@PacBell.COM (Andy Soravilla) writes: >>Is this something that should be bandied about on the net?? Or am I >>being too picky? >>Andy >You are right..it shouldn't be. Why don't we start talking about hot >wiring cars and picking locks? Why shouldn't it be. Where else would you get the information (unless it says in the manuals). Besides, why would you want to restrict the flow of commonly known information? As for the other: that rather belongs into rec.auto.* and has nothing to do in this group, so there I'm being picky :-). So long, Martin -- Email: in the USA -> mboening.pad@nixdorf.com outside USA -> mboening.pad@nixdorf.de Paper Mail: Martin Boening, Nixdorf Computer AG, PSD-C63 Pontanusstr. 55, 4790 Paderborn, W.-Germany (Phone: +49 5251 146155)