

| Subject: | Re: oh, yeah ... Whatshisname is coming back this weekend. |
| Date: | Mon, 22 Aug 94 10:43:35 PDT |
> > How can you log in as root, if you are not root, and don't have the > password? :) > > /m > Easy. simply ftp to the account, and "put" a clean version of .login, .chsrc, .env, or whatever startup script your system uses. -Jim "been there, done that" Macklow macklow@sybase.com PS. The way to disable even this kind of salvageability (sp? :-) ) is to change the shell in the /etc/passwd file to be some non-existent program. Then even ftp won't work. Ask me how you can salvage a system with everyone's login (including root) set to a non-existent shell program, and everyone logged out.
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