OT?? Re: [K12OSN] Loosing access to master password

Sudev Barar sudev at mantraonline.com
Fri May 21 00:54:57 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 18:33, 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 
> everyth
Others have provided more than one method to achieve this.
Now it makes me wonder what prevents a "innovative" user to do the same
and control the server? Can these method be blocked?
Of course the boot off knoppix (similar) can never be blocked.
-- 
Sudev Barar
Learning Linux





More information about the K12OSN mailing list