So anyway, it was like, 17:00 CEST Aug 23 2006, you know? Oh, and, yeah,
The Ghost In The Machine was all like, "Dude,
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Johan Lindquist
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> on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 09:36:01 +0200
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>> In all fairness, if you used a file system without permissions on
>> any unix-like system, it would be as easy to edit /etc/passwd to
>> "hack"[1] that system, too.
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> Pedant Point:
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> /etc/shadow, nowadays, though it might depend on one's PAM settings.
I /was/ actually going to change what I had written before I posted
it, but editing /etc/passwd and putting your own user id to that of
root will have about the same effect, so I refute your pedant point!
So there. Phbhhbhbhbpt!
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