Re: password backdoors

[rrasmus () sdt com (Randy Rasmussen)]

> Dear all,
>
> On the subject of back doors. I have an old Apollo box
> running Domain 10.4.1
> and lost the password for root, the only account. I could
> not get back in and in the end had to re-install as I could
> not break in. A short time later I told this story to the
> HP service engineer who said that I should have given him a ring
> as they have a way to get in ! He would not tell me anything
> about how this would be done.
>
> Can anyone enlighten me further into how this would be
> done and if such back doors exist in other operating
> systems.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Lyndon

I have ran in to that problem on a solaris machine before.
And I am guessing that it can be done on an HP also.?!
What you do is boot to a cdrom (like you are going to install it)
and then openwindows will come up (in root), then you just
open up a cmdtool like any other time, mount /etc to /mnt or /a
and then edit the passwd file, reboot and you are back to normal.


Randy
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