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Article #3837Re: Stolen NeXT Station Color
From: HEIN JR R C
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 14:04
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 14:04
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In article <1dkhl3INNlno@agate.berkeley.edu> nweaver@ocf.berkeley.edu (Nicholas Weaver) writes: > The sysadmin manuals outline the procedure for recovering a stolen >root pasword, assuming that said theif can obtain a copy of the manuals, or >plead and beg on c.s.n.sysadmin for help. Otherwise, not much. A hardware >password simply means that it (Got to be PC here, when dealing with >Computers of Color) can simply remove the lithium battery and let it sit for >a while. and in article <1992Nov9.122504.13562@wam.umd.edu> > Could you outline this? It sounds to me like a pretty big > security fault. What is to prevent a user (i.e. someone > like me who logs in at school) from doing exactly that > and altering their own account privilages? If the person(s) who stold the machine look at this group, then they have all the information they need to break the security of the machine. PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Don`t post everything, if you must know the details e-mail someone, don't just leave it sit so anyone can read it. The odds are that the person(s) who stold this cube will not read this, but what if I was a planning to steal a cube. I now know how to get around the root password. PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!! make life easier on those of us trying to make security better, and use discression when posting. Richard h23@ornl.gov :-(
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ornl!ORNL.GOV!h23 From: h23@ORNL.GOV (HEIN JR R C) Subject: Re: Stolen NeXT Station Color Message-ID: <1992Nov16.140459.1543@ornl.gov> Sender: usenet@ornl.gov (News poster) Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 14:04:59 GMT Lines: 35