Root password??? Yes you can know the passwoed!!!

[Alan McKinnon]

On Thursday 06 April 2006 17:30, Sushil wrote:
> What Daniel and others are saying is right.
> You don't know root password but you can set one.
>  If you have grub to boot in linux OS, you can boot in recovery
> mode and will enter at root prompt. You can set the password by
>  command passwd (or something like that) which will ask you for new
> password twice. And your password is set.
> Am I missing something or I just discovered some loop hole?

No, it's not a loophole, it's what you get when someone has physical 
access to the computer. All pcs with all OSs work like this, and it's 
a good thing - you'd have to do it if a disgruntled employee changed 
all the root passwords on all machines then walked off the premises 
for example.

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Alan McKinnon
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