Ankit Jain wrote: > i started the question not to hack any system but i > was curious to know that in linux its easy to change > the root passwd It's easy *if* you have physical access to the machine. But in that situation, you could just remove the hard drive and take it home. Or install a keystroke logger into the keyboard to capture the root password. If an attacker can get physical access to the system, you lose. -- Glynn Clements <glynn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
