Re: TELNET client. How? (new to Linux).

On Sun, 16 Mar 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.help, in article
<lk3rt31lnh8pe7h3kc1emilda41ggvb9l6@4ax.com>, Joe Zeff wrote:

>Actually, I did miss that.  Thanx.  It later occured to me that a
>little bit of guru magic at boot time would probably get you either a
>root password, or at least, an account with root privileges.  Of
>course, if you know enough to do that, you probably wouldn't be using
>that distro.

Actually, the usual solution with this type of crippled system is
to use the su/sudo/kdesu/gksudo tool to set the root password.  But
again, this implies a somewhat higher knowledge level.

        Old guy

On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 14:42:34 -0500, ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld
(Moe Trin) wrote:

>Geez Joe, did you fail to read the rest of the post? 

Actually, I did miss that.  Thanx.  It later occured to me that a
little bit of guru magic at boot time would probably get you either a
root password, or at least, an account with root privileges.  Of
course, if you know enough to do that, you probably wouldn't be using
that distro.

-- 
Joe Zeff
     The Guy With the Sideburns
Debating unix flavors in the context of anything Microsoft is like
talking about which ice cream flavor tastes least like sawdust with
turpentine sauce.