Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

[Michael Crute <mcrute@gmail.com>]

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On 8/26/05, Fernando Meira <fmeira@gmail.com> wrote:
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> You're lacking optimism... Of course the brute-force attack was not 
> supposed to be done remotely! You can pull passwd to your local machine and 
> the let your computer handle it without interruptions. If some proprieties 
> of the password are known beforehand, then sooner would be a matter of hours 
> and later a couple of days. This is not even putting into the game some 
> distributed computing... 
> 
> 
True, but if you use shadow to store your passwords your in much better 
shape since the average hacker can't get a hold of the root owned shadow 
file.

-Mike

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Michael E. Crute
Software Developer
SoftGroup Development Corporation

Linux, because reboots are for installing hardware.
"In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?"

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