> Dear all, > > On the subject of back doors. I have an old Apollo box > running Domain 10.4.1 > and lost the password for root, the only account. I could > not get back in and in the end had to re-install as I could > not break in. A short time later I told this story to the > HP service engineer who said that I should have given him a ring > as they have a way to get in ! He would not tell me anything > about how this would be done. > > Can anyone enlighten me further into how this would be > done and if such back doors exist in other operating > systems. > > Thanks. > > Lyndon > I have ran in to that problem on a solaris machine before. And I am guessing that it can be done on an HP also.?! What you do is boot to a cdrom (like you are going to install it) and then openwindows will come up (in root), then you just open up a cmdtool like any other time, mount /etc to /mnt or /a and then edit the passwd file, reboot and you are back to normal. Randy _________________________________________________ / I'm off like a prom dress « \ | | | Randy L. Rasmussen American Airlines | | rrasmus@sdt.com 4333 Amon Carter Blvd | | Phone : (817)967-9242 MD 5547, | | FAX : (817)773-0833 Fort Worth, TX 76155 | \_________________________________________________/