From: Jim Nelson <james4765@verizon.net>
To: "Vladimir E. Rodriguez" <vrodriguez@municipiodeloja.gov.ec>
Cc: joy_mm@ieee.org, linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: problems with command su
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 17:08:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41B629F4.2030709@verizon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200412071627.53625.vrodriguez@municipiodeloja.gov.ec>
Vladimir E. Rodriguez wrote:
> Hello again, I tried this thing but it doesn't work.
> Also I checked that my user vladimir belongs to the group wheel, it's true,
> but I can't log with su.
>
> Please someone could help me?
>
> Thanks
>
> Vladimir
>
Last time I had to unlock a box, I booted into Knoppix, mounted the root fs, and
deleted the root password in /etc/shadow. In about 3 minutes. Scared the scat
out of the guys watching me.
Just make sure you fix the permissions both before and after - /etc/shadow is set
at 0400 and vi will gripe.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-07 22:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-07 16:01 problems with command su Vladimir E. Rodriguez
2004-12-07 18:21 ` joy merwin monteiro
2004-12-07 21:27 ` Vladimir E. Rodriguez
2004-12-07 22:08 ` Jim Nelson [this message]
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2004-12-07 16:01 Vladimir E. Rodriguez
2004-12-07 18:16 ` kaushal
2004-12-07 21:31 ` Vladimir E. Rodriguez
2004-12-07 22:46 ` Andreas Unterkircher
2004-12-07 23:17 ` Niklas Bolander
[not found] ` <1731.192.168.1.12.1102462096.squirrel@192.168.1.12>
2004-12-08 0:32 ` Niklas Bolander
2004-12-08 16:18 ` Atishay Kumar
2004-12-08 9:08 ` Andrew Kelly
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