[K12OSN] Loosing access to master password

[Josiah Ritchie]

No problem, this is an easy fix if you have local access. Message to
follow on how, but shooting this one off to calm your fears...

JSR/

On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 09:03, Alan A Hodson wrote:
> Hi gang
> 
> The unthinkable happened. Somehow I lost the root password to a new 
> system, and I am facing the daunting task of having to reinstall 
> everything... No files need to be saved, BUT, the question arises, 
> what if the system is hacked and your root password changed? What 
> security options are there? - I am thinking a boot disk with root 
> login with no pwd or some such emergency app, something like the 
> Install OSX CD in Macs, where one of the choices is change passwords 
> (being linux based, one of our gurus ought to be able to reverse 
> engineer the process...)
> Cheers
> Alan Hodson
> El Paso ISD, TX
> -=o=-
> 
> 
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