[clue-tech] recover root ? Ubuntu 1 0.4 netbook remix

David L. Anselmi anselmi at anselmi.us
Fri Oct 15 22:21:45 MDT 2010


Mike Bean wrote:
> Oh, I know, but she'd somehow set it to auto-login to the system, and the
> only password we knew was being refused when we tried to sudo commands.  (Am
> I allowed to curse on this mailing list?) I'm not sure what the @#$@#$ she
> did.

You could look at her/root's history, maybe.

I heard today that RHEL has an auditd that records everything everyone does.  Sadly I've been in 
places where that would be a good thing--permissions allow too many people access and then bosses 
ask who changed what.

Dave


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