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

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As I recall, it was the method of choice with the earliest slackware
distribution of linux using Linux kernel 0.99.  I could be mistaken
though; it's been years.

Or maybe it was an early Kernighan & Ritchie implementation <sigh>.

Jeff

Jens Kristian Søgaard wrote:
> 
> Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > Read and buy a good linux or unix administration book.  For years the
> > only method there was of adding/deleting/modifying users to change the
> > /etc/passwd file by hand; it's not hard.
> 
> Eh? -- what weird system were you using, that required the
> modification of the /etc/passwd file by _hand_ ?
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