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Old March 12th, 2006   #21
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Re: Possible to get the administrator password ?

Be careful - I'm pretty sure most uni's will kick you out if they find this out. I know mine would. Also, the access on Ubuntu is likely logged so they will be able to track it...
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Old March 12th, 2006   #22
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Be careful - I'm pretty sure most uni's will kick you out if they find this out. I know mine would. Also, the access on Ubuntu is likely logged so they will be able to track it...
im root, ill just kill the logs, but im just kidding, i don't know how to hack if it was my life
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Old March 12th, 2006   #23
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Great find. We should have kept this secret, and the bug too though. Now that it is known, I'm hoping for a patch tomorrow, latest.
can everybody that has confirmed this do it in the bugentry i posted? this way the developer can see its confirmed by more than two
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Old March 12th, 2006   #24
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Re: Possible to get the administrator password ?

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/34606

confirmed and moved too critcal, thanx to the OP this is major!
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Old March 12th, 2006   #25
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Re: Possible to get the administrator password ?

Show this to you teacher maybe you'll get a good mark for that
Now seariously: I hope this gets fixed soon. This is MAJOR
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Old March 12th, 2006   #26
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Show this to you teacher maybe you'll get a good mark for that
Now seariously: I hope this gets fixed soon. This is MAJOR
i'm not at school anymore, i was thinking about telling it to the kids at the free library service the poor university is running,, muhahahahahahahah (and even more evil laugh)
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Old March 12th, 2006   #27
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Is this bug-security hole already reported?
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Old March 12th, 2006   #28
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no, i have just posted a bug report; https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/34606
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Re: Possible to get the administrator password ?

is there any reason for not just rm (deleting) the whole questions.dat file??
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Re: Possible to get the administrator password ?

Oh and incidently, I find that in dapper on my machine password shows "None"
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