Re: lost password and sniffer

• To: draw@hk.net (Bremen Lee)
• Subject: Re: lost password and sniffer
• From: Cho Heeje <heeje@speed.postech.ac.kr>
• Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 10:27:29 +1000 (KDT)
• Cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
• In-Reply-To: <9605300944.AA04763@hk.net> from "Bremen Lee" at May 30, 96 05:44:40 pm

> I change the date of my digital unix and try to login root.  However
> it say the account is expired.  Then I boot it to single user mode
> and type passwd.  It prompt "the account is expired, please contact
> account administrator"  Is there any way I can restore the root
> password?

changing date is a little dangerous operation.
If other users are using the RCS and time dependent program,
they will be in a chaos.

If you are system administrator of your system, you will have to
careful in changing the date for some purposes.

-- 
Heeje Cho,
Data & Knowledge Engineering Laboratory, 
Department of Industrial Engineering ,
Pohang University of Science and Technology ( Postech ),
San 31, Hyoja-Dong, Pohang, 790-784, KOREA

E-Mail:	heeje@vision.postech.ac.kr 
Room:   Engineering Bg. 5-303( 0562-279-2857 ) 
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