[Tfug] Cracking a root password?

[Shawn Nock]

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Glen Pfeiffer wrote:
> On 09/10/2007 04:51 PM, Christopher Robbins wrote:
>> I don't have the old admin around, so I gotta start plugging 
>> away at this one on my own.
>>
>> Ideas?
> 
> Do you have physical access?
> 
> If so then:

pass "init=/bin/bash" to the kernel at boot
mount filesystems ("mount -a")
/usr/bin/passwd
reboot

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Shawn Nock (OpenPGP: 0x5E377505)
Unix Systems Group; UITS
University of Arizona
nock at email.arizona.edu
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