On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 10:19:39AM +0200, Thor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > if you have physical access to the console and floppy drive you can always > start with a boot + root floppy, mount the hard disk and modify the > mounted /etc/passwd file ... this is an old trick, usefull when you > loose the root password ;-)
..unless, of course, the machine's owner has disabled floppy boots..in which case, you have to open the thing up and reset the BIOS; if the machine is in an environment with someone watching what's going on (eg, a school computer lab), this is fairly suspicious behavior and likely to bring unwanted attention.. Daniel -- /----------------- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----------------\ | If you're reading | Wisdom is one of the few things | | this, you have too | that looks bigger the farther away it is. | | much free time. | -- Terry Pratchett | \----------------- The Turtle Moves! -- http://www.lspace.org ----------------/
