Gabe Knuth wrote: >A client of ours lost their IT guy recently. He was one of those >"anti-documentation" guys, and was the ONLY ONE who knew the Linux root >password. Does anyone know how I can hack and crack my way into the >system, or even if I can? > Sure, just wait for the next sendmail exploit. :-) The lilo trick posted here by Jon Reynolds will work (the 'su' response will not, unless you've already got the root password which you obviously don't - if it did, this would be a HUGE security hole, and the Linux community takes a little more pride in security than MS does). If you aren't using lilo, here's what you can do: 1) Boot from an installation floppy or CD (RedHat is fine, and widely available), and choose the 'expert install' (on most distributions) so that you get a plain command prompt. 2) Mount the root volume ('mkdir harddisk' to create a mount point, then 'mount /dev/hda1 harddisk' for most IDE disks, or 'mount /dev/sda1 harddisk' for most SCSI disks). 3) Edit /etc/shadow as explained in Jon Reynold's e-mail. 4) Reboot, Login as root (no password), and then change the root password to something known immediately. *********************************************** This Weeks Sponsor: WM Software WMS Messenger for TSE Affordable Instant Messaging for Terminal Servers http://www.wmsoftware.com/wmsm/ ************************************************ For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link. http://thethin.net/citrixlist.cfm