Sure, same as HPUX ...it you have physical access to the machine you can get in by
booting single user...security begins with physical security.
You can lock that down I think through lilo but I'd almost never want to.
Only a machine in a public place or perhaps a desktop machine.
Never a server.
IMHO.
>>> Jeff Graves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/14/00 07:21am >>>
>Are you joking me? You can honestly get root access that easy?
>'linux 1' at the LILO prompt gets in as root w/o password.
>Hal B
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Are you joking me? You can honestly get root access that easy?
-----Original Message-----
From: Hal Burgiss [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2000 7:56 AM
To: RedHat Mail List
Subject: Re: Root doesn't accept password
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 09:46:34AM -0200, Michael Gatti wrote:
> I'm with a little password problem, we instaled a Linux server
for a
> company that has a dedicated line with my ISP and one of the
guys
> that works there (I know it's my fault cause I gave them the
root's
> password) changed it and know he doesn't remember what's the
correct
> password (guess what happend to him). Well what I would like
to ask
> is there a way to recover the password or am I gonna have to
> reinstall the hole server?
'linux 1' at the LILO prompt gets in as root w/o password.
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