[comp.os.minix] Help! What's the password?

stata@hplabsb.HP.COM (Raymie Stata) (05/02/90)

What are the passwords that come with Minix from PH?  I remember
that the password for user ast was something close to "watchword",
and the password for root started with a 'g'.  Can anyone send me
these passwords?

FYI, I got the Minix 1.3 kit from Prentice-Hall last Spring.  It's
been sitting on the shelf for a while, and I've recently decided to
get it going again.  My documentation is in the mail from Massachusetts,
but I'de like to start hacking before it arrives (it could take a
week or so).

Regards,
  Raymie Stata
    stata%cello@hplabs.hp.com

laurent@hpgnd.HP.COM (Laurent JULLIARD) (05/03/90)

Hello !

Password for root is Geheim (G is capital letter). I'm sorry but I don't
know the password for ast by heart... Anyway once you are super user (root)
you can change any password by editing /etc/passwd

Good luck 

Laurent Julliard (laurent@hpgnd.hp.com)

siebren@cwi.nl (Siebren van der Zee) (05/08/90)

laurent@hpgnd.HP.COM (Laurent JULLIARD) writes:

>you can change any password by editing /etc/passwd
	 ^^^^^^
I bet you ment 'delete' any password.
Passwords should be changed with 'passwd' - unless you can
compute the encrypted version of your password yourself.

	Siebren