*BSD News Article 93558


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!news.corp.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!newsfeed.nacamar.de!newsfeed.ecrc.net!news.mch.sni.de!news.sni.de!Bielefeld.Germany.EU.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet
From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Root Password
Date: 14 Apr 1997 14:50:36 GMT
Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden
Lines: 12
Message-ID: <5itg7s$icq@innocence.interface-business.de>
References: <33506884.2B7@persephone.pinehurst.net>
  <E8KJ35.Lzp@news.interactive.net> <33513645.41C67EA6@diamond.xtalwind.net>
Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch)
NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de
X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6
X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14
X-Fax: +49-351-3361187
X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F  93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E
Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6644

jack <jack@diamond.xtalwind.net> wrote:

> If the outgoing SA was po'ed enough not to leave the password behind he
> probably took <2 minutes to set /dev/console to insecure in /etc/ttys.
> :(

So, boot from an emergency floppy.

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j