No joke. Most UNIX flavors have something like this available. Sun has
a "secure" mode enabled nowdays by default which requires the root
password when attempting to enter run level 1.
Heck, if you have a boot floppy you can mount the drive and change the
password also.
One reason why physical security is soo important...
>
>
> 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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