On Thu, 6 Jun 2002 23:16:08 -0400 "D. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday 06 June 2002 07:54 pm, you wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 18:22, Praedor Tempus wrote: > > > This might actually be a useful tool for use when you forget your > > > root password...and perhaps the procedure would suggest a fix to > > > prevent it? > > > > In case this might happen to you a better idea would be to write the > > password down on a piece of paper and put that paper in some safe > > place. IMHO this is a lot better idea than hacking into your system > > because you locked the car with the keys in... Besides, that's the > > point of security - so you won't be able to do that. > > If this was referring to the boot-disk and restore the password that > way, then the argument is stupid, because if someone gets physical > access to your computer, what is stopping them from just reformatting > your computer and putting Windows on it instead? Or forget that, just > take the computer and sell it or whatever. Reminds me of a computer controlled security system. 50 cameras 5 monitors switching to 10 a piece, plus a normal monitor, all controlled by one box running an i386 Unix. The security guard was getting bored at night so he wanted to play games. The ones he had wouldn't run on, as he put it, the version of DOS on this box. So he brought in his own DOS disks to install the newest version.... Alarms go off, the security system is down..... and one lone guard is sitting there playing defender on the center monitor. and yes this did happen. James > > However, if you are referring to something else, ignore that/ :) > >
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