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Re: [cobalt-users] questions about becoming root
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] questions about becoming root
- From: Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue Dec 31 23:52:01 2002
- Organization: nobaloney.net
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
Parker Morse wrote:
> Not if you changed the admin password from the GUI; as has been mentioned,
> that will reset the root password as well. (You should, of course, then
> change the root password to something else.)
Sounds like a good security measure, but anyone knows it's a RaQ will
know they can log in through the gui and change both passwords to
anything they want if they just have the admin password, so it's not as
great protection as most would think.
Jeff
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