RE: [cobalt-users] No Root or Admin Access

[Brandon Wheaton <brandonw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: Re: [cobalt-users] No Root or Admin Access

Well one last thing.... can you remember what modifications you made to /etc/passwd?

Some folks think that if you comment out a line in /etc/passwd, that will disable the account.

 

Example:

If you did something like

 

#root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash

 

Then in most cases, it is still possible to log in as "#root" or "#admin" or "&*%*whatever"

Good luck.  :^)

Brandon Wheaton
UNIX Operations Engineer
ValiCert, Inc.
1215 Terra Bella Ave.
Mountain View, CA 94043
650.567.5430
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-----Original Message-----
From: Keith [mailto:keith@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 5:28 PM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] No Root or Admin Access

I 
don't have FTP or telnet.  Thanks for all the responses.
I think it is 
down with the ship and reinstall from the OS Disk.
:( 
 

Keith
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