Getting to root when the password has been lost

Jay A. Konigsberg jak at sactoh0.SAC.CA.US
Sat Sep 22 02:35:51 AEST 1990


>Is this something that should be bandied about on the net?? Or am I
>being too picky?
>Andy
>
>>You  are  right..it shouldn't be.  Why don't we start talking  about  hot
>>wiring cars and picking locks?
>

While there are several ways of busting root that shouldn't be public,
there _is_ one way normally available _only_ available to the System
Administrator.

Do a partial restore of the OS.


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Jay @ SAC-UNIX, Sacramento, Ca.   UUCP=...pacbell!sactoh0!jak
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