[geeks] IRIX, Passwords over 8 char?

[David Cantrell]

On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 10:38:01AM -0500, Ethan wrote:
> > > Took about thirty seconds, and I had a password that got me into the box.
> > > 
> > 
> > Well, in Ethan's defense, you did have *physical* access to the box...
> 
> I was going to say, sash! (why not just take out the password in the
> shadow file if your in SASH and single user?).

Errm, he did say he only had read access to the disk, not read/write.

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