Under African Skies!

Under African Skies!
an inquisitive mind

When passwd, CLI and ROOT gets dangerous

June 25th, 2007

Next time when you want to change a user passwd, make sure to type the username… especially when you are logged in as root. You may not be so lucky to find that you just hit ‘enter’ after passwd and then continued to change the user account.b I have managed to log myself out for 3 days :) yeah it took me that long to realise my mistake

SO BEWARE, especially if its a remote server that you do not have access to all the time??

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