At 01:03 PM 12/8/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I have a desperate call for ideas. I have a
>colleague that had to let someone in his lab go
>under not so good conditions. This person was the
>programmer/administrator of the lab's Linux box
>(Red Hat) that has ALL of the lab's research data
>on it and all of the proprietary software they
>use. When he left, the boss asked for the root
>password and it did not work. Fearing remote
>administration, they have disconnected the
>ethernet cable.
>
>THE BIG QUESTION: Is there a way to re-install
>linux over the top of itself and reset the Root
>account without losing the data?
No need to do that. You have several solutions. The easiest is to use a
rescue disk to boot up and then mount the drive and hand-edit the
/etc/passwd file of the mounted drive.
Note that it is possible the ex-sysadmin installed trojans and the like.
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