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Re: [cobalt-security] pro's and cons of not letting GUI change ro ot password
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-security] pro's and cons of not letting GUI change ro ot password
- From: Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 10:43:31 -0500
- List-id: Mailing list for users to address network security on Cobalt products. <cobalt-security.list.cobalt.com>
On Saturday 02 March 2002 09:55 am, Jelmer Jellema wrote:
>
> But not if you, as I originally proposed, hacked that function out of the
> admin lib..... So if you would want to do that, you'd better not forget the
> root password, because the button would not work any more (unless you also
> changed pwreset as proposed...)
>
excuse me, I missed that part of the thread.
If you forget the root password just boot in single user mode using the
console port and change the root password.
Providing you have phy accesss to your RaQ.
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Gerald Waugh