Question about last meeting

Thu May 10 09:32:30 EDT 2001

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Hello All,
 More specifically, Bob. At the last meeting when we were working on my
RedHat Linux box (I had the tower next to the guy’s that we put Mandrake 8.0
on). When we were doing something, you put a command in, I think it was “-s”
at the boot prompt with the cd install, that let us bypass the password
prompt. Do you remember that I had commented about the fact that that could
be a good issue to talk about security and you had said that anytime anyone
is physically near a box, that the security can be breached. My question for
all of this, is that I have someone that forgot their root password and they
had data they cannot loose. I don’t know which flavor of Linux it is. Any
help would be greatly appreciated from anyone out there. Thanks,
peter at thecybersource.com <mailto:peter at thecybersource.com>

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&nbsp; More =
specifically, Bob. At
the last meeting when we were working on my RedHat Linux box (I had the =
tower
next to the guy&#8217;s that we put Mandrake 8.0 on). When we were doing =
something, you
put a command in, I think it was &#8220;-s&#8221; at the boot prompt =
with the cd install,
that let us bypass the password prompt. Do you remember that I had =
commented
about the fact that that could be a good issue to talk about security =
and you had
said that anytime anyone is physically near a box, that the security can =
be
breached. My question for all of this, is that I have someone that =
forgot their
root password and they had data they cannot loose. I don&#8217;t know =
which flavor of
Linux it is. Any help would be greatly appreciated from anyone out =
there.
Thanks, <a =
href=3D"mailto:peter at thecybersource.com">peter at thecybersource.com</a> =
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