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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: HELP root password unknown
Message-ID: <2392@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 25 Nov 90 19:19:24 GMT
References: <1990Nov20.094505.896@ceres.physics.uiowa.edu> <28378@usc>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <28378@usc> kjh@pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson) writes:
| In article <1990Nov20.094505.896@ceres.physics.uiowa.edu> rlm@ceres.physics.uiowa.edu writes:
| >Someone (a hacker I suppose) has changed the root password on our ESIX system 
| >- is it possible to access the system to reset this?
| 
| I HOPE NOT.  If there is, then all ESIX systems are terribly insecure.

  Any system in which you have no physical security is insecure. Is
there a version of UNIX which doesn't allow you to mount the root
partition and change the appropriate files?

  A doubt a hacker, I bet someone just forgot their password.
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
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