gorbachv@kremvax.UUCP (Current Premier) (03/26/85)
<Netnews bug? We use old-fashioned listening bug> 04/01/85 (Julian) Greetings nyet.unix-wizards: I am having BIG problem at my site. Only person with root access die a fews weeks ago from bad cold. I, being new administrator, am needing root permission. What we do? Please be sending replys to ...!northvax!kremvax!gorbachv
gromyko@moscvax.CCCP (Central Committee) (03/29/85)
In article <522@kremvax.CCCP> gorbachv@kremvax.CCCP (Current Premier) writes > I am having BIG problem at my site. Only person with root >access die a fews weeks ago from bad cold. I, being new >administrator, am needing root permission. What we do? We have 20 Vax 11/780's here at the Moscow Institute of Interstellar Nuclear Warfare and have encountered this problem frequently when system administrators become non-persons (refuseniks, dissidents and other criminals against the state). Just follow the instructions in the Great Patriotic Bolshevix Programmers Manual Volume 2c chapter "Stealing, Copying, Installing and Operating 4.2Bolshevik Siberian Distribution" (State Procedure 1.01.02.A) dealing with bringing the capitalist machine in single individual mode. Then type: # sed 's/root:.............:/root::/' /etc/passwd > /etc/passwd.new # mv /etc/passwd.new /etc/passwd # ^D Then please to post new dialup number for kremvax to Usenet comrade. From the workers paradise, ..!moscvax!gromyko