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1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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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 Organization: Totally Disorganized. Lines: 15 Approved: Nope. Message-ID: 3m6ljm$lgt@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU NNTP-Posting-Host: w20-575-12.mit.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Status: RO
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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