Re: Controlling root access

Subject: Re: Controlling root access

From: "Minot Opdyke" <email@hidden>

Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 09:42:12 -0700

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I think what he wants to do is enable root, not change the password and he wants to do it without logging in and using NetInfo to enable.

Minott Opdyke
SCT
Rose Elementary School
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>>>"John C. Welch" <email@hidden> 04/26/05 9:30 am >>>

On 4/26/05 10:51, "Kok-Yong Tan" <email@hidden> wrote:

>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.

You can change the password for any existing user account, including root.

John C. Welch Writer/Analyst

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