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From: regn@geyer.UUCP (Robert Regn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MINIX Security
Keywords: Security
Message-ID: <614@geyer.UUCP>
Date: 21 Mar 91 18:32:49 GMT
Reply-To: regn@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.dbp.de (Robert Regn)
Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany
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In <48053@nigel.ee.udel.edu> ECO861771@ecostat.aau.dk writes:
> Just one very simple way to do it would be to take a disk editor, find the
> passwd file, and then change the password of root to nothing. This is very
> easy as long as the minix file system is not read/write protected on the
> host on which it resides. (Or encrypted).

> I guess this even works on big real life UNIX machines. Just take your
> Macintosh to the lab, disconnect the SCSI drive with the root file system
> and connect it to your mac. Then use a disc editor to make changes.


The minix filesystem _is_ read/write protected on the minix PC. Only root
can use the disk editor (e.g. de).
But the easiest way is to have  a root image on floppy with a known root
password and rebooting the pc using this floppy
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	Robert Regn				University of Wuerzburg, Germany
	regn@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.dbp.de
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	Robert Regn				University of Wuerzburg, Germany
	regn@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.dbp.de