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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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  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]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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