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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Path: sparky!uunet!sci34hub!gary
- From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
- Subject: Re: Single-user mode boot on SCO UNIX - not a solution
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.164006.12354@sci34hub.sci.com>
- Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
- Organization: SCI Systems, Inc., Huntsville, Al.
- References: <syscrc.714768938@gsusgi1.gsu.edu> <1992Aug25.195455.1065@ksvltd.fi> <1992Aug28.201249.29451@smallo.bo.open.de>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 16:40:06 GMT
- Lines: 43
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- In article <1992Aug28.201249.29451@smallo.bo.open.de> oklein@smallo.bo.open.de (Olaf Klein) writes:
- > [ someone, lost in the mists of the References: line, wrote: ]
-
- >>>Ok...this is embaressing...we forgot the root password on a seldom used
-
- >Trying to forget your root-password, and then show me how to get as
- >root into the machine (without accessing the floppys) - if this is
- >possible, your OS isn't worth to be called Unix. Unix was designed to
- >be secure, especially the root account has to be protected from hack
- >attacks.
-
- No, it was designed for exactly the opposite case, where everything and
- everyone was trusted, and all resources could be shared/improved by all
- users. Security was *not* a fundamental design criteria; it was an
- add-on kluge.
-
- >If you don't know how to hack a system you should probably not post
- >against SCO's security but read your manuals and try to get into the
- >system, maybe some time you need the knowledge...
-
- ...speaking of not knowledgeable, you suggested:
-
- >I would try to boot with N1, N2 or the emergency disks (if accessible)
- >and then mount /dev/root. After that `mv /mnt/etc/passwd to
- >/mnt/etc/passwd.old` and boot from harddisk...
-
- ....which will probably fail, as the login program wouldn't be able to
- locate *any* userid, so no matter who you try to log in as, it'll fail.
- Go read your manuals.
-
- Boot from the install boot floppy, break from that, mount the root
- partition, edit the password file(s), unmount, and *then* boot from
- the hard drive.
-
-
- (Hey, Barry, here's another posting from me for you to flame.)
-
-
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- The Chairman of the Board and the CFO speak for SCI. I'm neither.
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