Re: When fogetting assigned login name rather than password
On Sat, 2014-03-15 at 11:29 +0000, Tom Furie wrote:
> 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.
On Sat, 2014-03-15 at 05:45 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I knew the root password
It likely does help him, my hint anyway is better than Scott's, because
it's possible that the UID isn't 1000.
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