** from the outer limits of space and time electrons arranged themselves into a message from Sascha Kloss <01725832094@d2mail.de> on Mon, 26 Feb 2001 20:49:57 +0100 Earth Standard Time
I recently bought 7.1 pro and forgot my root password. It was terrible. Anyway, after a bit thinkin' I took out the CD 2 and started the 'rescue system'. With that I had FULL ACCESS on MY HDDs!! Even /etc/pwd... . I created a new user with no password and root privileges. With that I edited the root pwd and ...
ping-- There is my new root pwd.
Isn't this a security hole.
this is a "hole" IF strangers can gain *Physical* access to your machine log enough to do what you did... yet another reason folks dont like to let strangers see their "server/gateway" machines at all. I dont want any potential theif to know it's even in here. since, once they steel the box, it's security is truely comprimised! <s> Encryption of everything is what the paranoid admin would like, any bets on my chances of getting it? j It might look like I'm doing nothing, but at the cellular level I'm really quite busy.