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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Path: sparky!uunet!grebyn!daily!mfraioli
- From: mfraioli@grebyn.com (Marc Fraioli)
- Subject: Re: writing down root password (was Re: Disabling L1-A sequence?)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.220238.23297@grebyn.com>
- Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
- References: <1992Nov7.181811.11525@grebyn.com> <1dnuccINNgb@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> <janet.721445867@dunnart>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:02:38 GMT
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- In article <janet.721445867@dunnart> janet@cs.uwa.oz.au (Janet Jackson) writes:
- >In <1dnuccINNgb@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> craig@ec.uwa.oz.au (Craig Richmond - division)
- > says something that I hope is a joke:
- >
- >>More to the point. It would be a good idea to keep your root password
- >>written down ...
-
- My point wasn't so much that one might forget the password, but that if
- something foes wrong with the system, it can be hard to fix if you need
- the password to boot single user. For example, just last week, a guy at
- our site was doing some fiddling with NIS, and accidentally overwrote
- /etc/passwd with the version NIS distributes. Note that these are not
- the same-- NIS doesn't distribute all the daemon accounts, nor does it
- distribute the root account (at least not the way we use it). He had
- saved a copy of /etc/passwd, but of course we couldn't restore without
- being root! We had to L1-A, go to single user, and put it back.
- Without this ability, the fix would have been a much bigger pain.t te
- --
- Marc Fraioli
- mfraioli@grebyn.com (So I'm a minimalist...)
-