[SunRescue] OT: Advice on Certification

James Lockwood rescue at sunhelp.org
Sun May 6 22:13:52 CDT 2001


> On Fri, May 04, 2001, Bill Bradford wrote:
> >
> > At my interview for Broadwing, it helped that half the staff used
> > sunhelp.org on a regular basis.. Then in the interview, my boss (who
> > was an ex-admin himself, having been booted up to management) asked
> > "okay, how would you go about getting into a system where the root
> > password had been lost?"

I've always liked the "if you're at the console anyway and can log in as a
user, break into OBP and set your EUID to 0" answer.  :)

It saves a reboot, which can sometimes be important.  Command-line FORTH
also has high geek value.

-James




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