Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1479 mails)

["Brian K. White" <brian@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/2/2012 7:47 AM, James Knott wrote:
> Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> > > With Linux, give anyone a grub menu and nothing else, and it's
> > > trivial to
> > > > get to a root prompt and change the root password.
> > In a corporate world, the trick then would be to set the root password
> > back after this so the IT police don't know you did it...
>
> The trick to resetting the password is knowing what it was originally.
> It's easy enough to change the password to something new, but restoring
> the original?

You don't have to know what it was to save & then restore it.

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