25 Nov
2000
25 Nov
'00
1:41 a.m.
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 08:30:50PM -0800, Chris Kennedy wrote:
Jeez, if you've got the media to do that then all
you have to do is boot off
CD, deal with the configuration dialog long enough to get to the point
where you can break out and get a shell, mount the root file system off
the existing drive and then hammer _both_ /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow
(this case sounds like /etc/passwd got modified but not the shadow file).
No need to install anything...
Its a lot easier than that:
ok boot cdrom -s
Gets you a single-user shell, no need to deal with the install at all.
Bill (mrbill(a)sunhelp.org)
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Bill Bradford
mrbill(a)mrbill.net
Austin, TX