[ale] admin

[Jim Kinney]

DON'T!!! Very dangerous from a security standpoint. If you have made a
rescue disk you can reboot the machine with it, mount the hard drive, go
edit the /etc/passwd file and replace the encrypted password string with
nothing (i.e. root:sUgt6kJgq:other:stuff  becomes root::other:stuff).
Now when you reboot from the hard drive, root login will require no
password. Immediatly change this to be some password you can remember. A
good trick is to use the first letter of each word of a phrase that is
meaningful to you. "Linux is my operating system, of course" can become
Limosoc. Now stick in some punctuation and capital letters and you've got
a good password. LimOS,oc!  

James Kinney M.S.Physics		jkinney at emory.edu
Educational Technology Specialist	404-727-4734
Department of Physics Emory University	http://teller.physics.emory.edu

On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, RHS Linux User wrote:

> 
> Dear Sir/Madam, 
> I am a newbie at linux. I am using redhat 5.0 .I am had a successful
> install of it . Now this linux is running on a intel pentium box. 
> I have a fright of forgetting the root password . I want to create  a
> parallel user 
> who has equal rights as root and can telnet from any terminal and
> administer the box.The regular telnet facility already there. 
> I have looked up commands such as uid , setuid, but still have no hint . 
> So, please help me. I will be grateful for your help. Thanks in advance . 
>  
>