[olug] Unix Tip: GET THE HIDDEN FILES

[Dave Hull]

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Dean wrote:

> This brings back wonderful newb admin memories :D
> *<forces smile to hide pain> Ah, good times, good times.

I recall years ago when I first started using Linux, getting drunk one night 
and changing my root password. I woke up the next morning and could not 
remember the new password, that was smart. At that time, the only way around 
this that I knew of was to boot from the install media and mount the partition 
and vi /etc/password (no shadow in those days), but that took me a day to 
figure out. Looking back, I don't know if "single" was a valid boot argument 
or not.

Moral of the story, never do anything stupid, when you're, uh, getting stupid.

-- 
Dave Hull
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