Password Problem Revisited

[Bob Stockler]

On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 07:52:55PM -0400, John Esak wrote:
| 
| Jeez, just in case you missed Bob Stockler's suggestion, Vicky... Don't use
| vi to remove the passwords until you jot it down exactly or cut and paste it
| to the fourth line of the /etc/default/password file. That will allow you to
| set all the tables back to plain ascii first...  Do this by putting
| ABE=ASCII in your configuration editor, then resaving the table's _Then_ and
| only then after all the tables have been resaved (I would do it (en masse
| (sp?) from the command line), you can remove the 4th line and be back to
| ground zero.

And, if she has edited all of the ASCII saved tables before
trying my suggestion, she could restore them from backups
to try it (before they're lost in her backup cycle [1]).

Bob

NOTE 1 - Rotating the same media in a backup cycle is NOT a
         very good idea.  Periodic snapshots should be saved
         and kept for a reasonable amount of time.

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