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Re: Controlling root access



At 16:32 +0100 4/26/05, Finlay Dobbie wrote:
>On 4/26/05, Kok-Yong Tan <email@hidden> wrote:
>> Outside of NetInfo Manager, how many other ways can root access be
>> enabled and disabled on a client system without booting into
>> single-user mode and then monkeying with the NetInfo database via CLI?
>
>I think you can do it by booting off an install CD, too.
>
> -- Finlay

Hmmm...interesting.  I thought you could only *RESET* an already existing user password that way, not enable root. 
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