HELP root password unknown

[Wm E. Davidsen Jr]

In article <28378 at usc> kjh at pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson) writes:
| In article <1990Nov20.094505.896 at ceres.physics.uiowa.edu> rlm at ceres.physics.uiowa.edu writes:
| >Someone (a hacker I suppose) has changed the root password on our ESIX system 
| >- is it possible to access the system to reset this?
| 
| I HOPE NOT.  If there is, then all ESIX systems are terribly insecure.

  Any system in which you have no physical security is insecure. Is
there a version of UNIX which doesn't allow you to mount the root
partition and change the appropriate files?

  A doubt a hacker, I bet someone just forgot their password.
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