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Re: Getting AIX root access


Article: 7628 of alt.hackers
From: smr@mit.edu (Szymon M. Rusinkiewicz)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Re: Getting AIX root access
Date: 8 Apr 1995 18:45:10 GMT
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David C Smith (dcs@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM) writes:

>Switch the keylock back to Service, re-boot to bring up diagnostics.
>Again, this time, !vi /etc/security/passwd. Copy the encrypted
>password from your new user and replace root's original password.
>Exit from diagnostics.

Since you can edit the passwd file, wouldn't it be simpler to just delete the
root password?

ObHack:
Writing a script in awk to do least-squares fitting of data to arbitrary
(awk-understood) functions.

 - SMR



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