<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> windows boxs are just as easy to change administrator passwd w/ knoppix or erd commander (bootable recovery cd for windows). to prevent this, well.... lots of servers have locking front covers server racks can lock in bios put hd as first boot device then set a bios passwd. (all of the above *can* be defeated) I am sure you could password encrypt your hd but I don't know much about that. -chris Danny Terweij - Net Tuning | Net wrote: <blockquote cite="mid00bc01c5fc63$6952e7d0$1e00a8c0@prvd321" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">From: "Terry Polzin" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:fox3ec208@wideopenwest.com"><fox3ec208@wideopenwest.com></a> </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I'd boot into rescue mode and vi the /etc/shadow file and remove the </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">passwords </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">then reboot normal. The accounts will then have no password and then you could generate your own passwords. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Eeks!. I thought linux was better then windows with passwords security. So when your laptop/server/pc is stolen all they have to do is this and gets full access as root with no pass? Next question, how to prevent this ? Danny. </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>