Re: INCREDIBLE - what am I missing here... ??? !!!

[Jerome Draper <jdraper@xxxxxxx>]

I was working on a Sun Unix system and the console locked.  I went over to
a terminal and telnetted to the Sun but I couldn't signon as the superuser
so I launched WS_FTP and xferred the password file to the PC.  I edited
this file with wordpad and, ignoring the gunk, removed the # that commented
the line that disallowed me to logon as superuser from a terminal that was
not the console.  Then I FTPed this file back to the Sun, launched telnet,
logged on as the superuser (whew!), and cancelled the frozen job which
freeed up the console.

And I'm not even a unix geek --- but I'm dangerous.

Jerry


Jerry Draper, Trilobyte Software Systems, since 1976
Specializing in connecting PC's, Windows, MAC's, and LAN's to the AS/400
Representing Synapse, Apple, UDS, Nlynx, Perle, Lucent, etc.
(415) 457-3431; (415) 258-1658fax; jdraper@wco.com
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