HELP root password unknown

[Kenneth J. Hendrickson]

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.
I hope you have to have each user backup their stuff, and re-load the OS
off of the original disks and/or tapes.  I hope this not to wish you a
terrible lot of work, but because I am thinking about ESIX, and I
wouldn't want such an insecure system.

In addition, how do we know that you aren't some hacker trying to
compromise some ESIX system?  :-)

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