Re: root password

[Tobias Hirning <Tobias.Hirning@gmx.de>]

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Am Samstag, 2. April 2005 20:53 schrieben Sie:
> At 08:03 PM 4/1/2005 +0200, Tobias Hirning wrote:
>> [...]
>
> I don't, from these fragments, recognize what message you are
> replying to, Tobias.
Sorry about that, yes I was replying to your mail.

> But your quoting makes it appear that the two 
> suggestions you respond to are mine, and I just wanted to make it
> clear that they are not. Neither would have been responsive to the
> message that started this thread ... a user who forgot his own root
> password looking for a workaround.
I don't want to start such a big thread.
> [...]
> "Get the shadow file" is not a trivial step in the instructions
> (How to travel in time: 1. Purchase or construct a flux capacitor;
> 2. Install it in a DeLorean); normally it requires root access.  So
> anyone who can get this file has already figured out how to get
> root access, at least in a limited way. I am a bit surprised at
> your 90% claim; when I've done this (in my onetime role as a
> sysadmin), I found maybe 3-5% of users had weak passwords (by the
> standards of the cracking software of the time).
Yes, I don't told, that it was the shadow file of a school, with only 
8 character passwords and DES-encryption.
> [...]
Tobias

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