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- From: bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion)
- Subject: Re: How does a mortal become a UNIX WIZARD ?
- Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 14:54:06 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.145406.4043@bilver.uucp>
- References: <1992Nov19.001512.72408@slate.mines.colorado.edu> <sherman.722312029@foster> <By3EK1.9uE@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
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- In article <By3EK1.9uE@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> gjschmid@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Greg Schmidt) writes:
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- >In article <sherman.722312029@foster> sherman@unx.sas.com (Chris Sherman) writes:
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- >Does wiping out /etc/passwd count? Is 2 hours too long to figure out what
- >needs to be done, and doing it? I could do it in about 15 minutes, now that
- >I know what needs to be done...
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- I do some work at a local Community College. We have one person who
- thinks Unix is just like her beloved DOS. A user had to have a
- modification to her word processor set up. Not knowing the users
- password she moved /etc/passwd.
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- Then she couldn't log in. When I arrived an hour or so later she said
- "Bill - I think I've done something wrong". If ot weren't for the
- users losing their morings work I should have let her rebuild the
- system from scratch jut to teach here a lesson. ARGH!
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- As it was - your 15 minute estimate is about right - give or take 10
- minutes.
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