From: daniel parkes (liquidsmail@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Jun 06 2006 - 17:07:30 EDT
Hy people thnx for the great help finally because i am using a trusted
system i used for the script the sam command:
/usr/sam/lbin/usermod.sam -F -p "XikOaM8eGZti" root where "XikOaM8eGZti"
is the encrypted password you determined represents the password "foo"
u can also use and excellent tool call expect its open-source.
And if ur not using a trusted system u can check out:
Check out <http://www.ivdcs.co.uk/> -> Hints 'n Tips
thnx Againt to all the people GREAT HELP like allways!!.
On 6/6/06, Corne Beerse <cbeerse@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> daniel parkes wrote:
>
> > Hy people,
> >
> >
> > I need to make a script that is able to put a standard password to the
> > root account without knowing the old one.
> >
> >
> > I know you can use this command to put it to null
> >
> > usr/sam/lbin/usermod.sam -F -p "" root
> >
> > but after that how can i change it inside a script to a new password
> > lets say foo for example???
> >
> >
> > thnx People
>
>
> The easy way would be to just edit the password file (/etc/passwd or a
> shaddow one) with a known password.
>
> On the other hand, on Ubuntu-linux, the root account cannot access using
> a password. There sudo is used to switch to the root account, that needs
> the users own password. If properly setup a far better way to administer
> a machine. However, I have to admid I have given root a password to be
> able to do a normal su. On the other hand, root still cannot login.
>
>
> CBee
>
>
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