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Re: When fogetting assigned login name rather than password



On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 10:09:33PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> On 15/03/14 21:45, Richard Owlett wrote:

> > If another OS had not been available but I knew the root password, is
> > there some way I could have gained access as root?

> # passwd `grep 1000 /etc/passwd | cut -d : -f1`

That doesn't help him until he's logged into the system.

Cheers,
Tom

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