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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Path: 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
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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
- :-(
-