On 0, Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote: > Tom Cook <tom.cook@adelaide.edu.au> [2002-08-04 11:29:28 +0930]: > > Once you have a root shell, why edit /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow at > > all? Why not just use passwd to change the password? > > Actually that would work fine. Since / is still the same / everything > matches up. Good observation. > > When using a rescue boot disk you can't normally do that since now / > is the rescue system and not your normal root. In that case usually > your normal / is actually /target or wherever you decided to mount it. > In that case it has been easiest to edit the files directly. Although > there is nothing intrinsically wrong with getting 'passwd' to somehow > work natively on a redirected root. Except that, now that I look at it: # which passwd /usr/bin/passwd So you would need to mount /usr as well. But that should not be a hassle. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "That you're not paranoid does not mean they're not out to get you." - Robert Waldner Get my GPG public key: https://pinky.its.adelaide.edu.au/~tkcook/tom.cook-at-adelaide.edu.au
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