[TriLUG] Alternate root user

[John Franklin]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 03:24:51PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> I think you can just edit /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow by hand, duplicating
> the root line. One guy I knew (no specifics, please) used "toor" for that
> purpose.

Do you have vipw installed?  That does the editing of /etc/passwd and
/etc/shadow automatically.

jf
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