Serious password problems...

[Mark Jaffe]

On 6/30/02 21:33, "Chris Ruprecht" <Chris@Ruprecht.ORG> wrote:

> Indeed, what you describe is a problem.
> to begin with, even when you go to the site, how do you log in without the
> passwords, unless the system has an open ssh/terminal session up and running.
> 
> Back in the good old bad days, you could pop in a floppy, bring your system up
> from there, mount the / disk under the floppy fs and mess around with the
> /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files.
> 
> If however, you miraculously get access to the machine, you have to remove the
> second entry in the shadow file, all the fuzzy stuff between the two colons
> after the user name.
> 
> If the user is not in the user file, delete him completely (not the home
> directory) and do a new useradd for him.
> 
> Best regards,
> Chris
> 

Interesting point about the floppy boot. How hard would it be to get a CD
with YDL that would boot into a mode that does not install, but would allow
access to a damaged system?

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