[Gllug] tips and tricks...

[Nix]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Michael E. A. yowled:
> Its amazing the kind of tips/tricks you can learn at a LUG meeting.
> Just the other day i decided to boot into my SuSE Partition to do a bit
> of 'Spring Cleaning', when i realised i had forgotten my root password.
> 
> I was contemplating a reinstall when i just happened to mention it to
> 'Matt', at yesterdays Lonix Meeting.
> I was adviced to mount the partition using 'tomsrtbt' (or similar) and
> edit the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files.

No need to do that.

Pass

init=/bin/sh

to the kernel via the LILO command line, &c.

Bingo, instant root prompt.

(Of course you need physical access for this so it is not a security
hole; someone with such access can already do anything.)

-- 
`It is to be proven that Linux Kernel is the most stable than MS Windows
 that it uses less stable.' --- Bryan Parkoff being very comprehensible

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