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Mine would log you in. Of course the OS (Oasis) had a way to exec the login program and feed it the password. I stole the teacher’s password and then changed it
by CodeWriter23 7y ago
Mine would log you in. Of course the OS (Oasis) had a way to exec the login program and feed it the password. I stole the teacher’s password and then changed it.
He busted me by booting up the system from floppy and typed in the commend to format the hard drive and waited for me to return to the lab after school. I asked him what he was doing and he said he had no choice but to reinstall from scratch because someone changed the password. He then moved to hit the Enter key.
Not wanting my fellow students to lose their projects, I confessed. I logged him in and he changed the password.
He then gave my account admin privileges. I guess I had earned them.
- mastef 7y agoInteresting reaction. What was the thought process behind it? E.g. what did you use them for
- CodeWriter23 7y agoI became the help desk. It seemed like an elevated status but in reality it meant I got some of the drudgery piled on to me. Password changes, adding students, disk quota increases and such.
- windsurfer 7y agoWhy would someone that could boot a system from floppy have to "format the hard drive" instead of just setting a new password?
- CodeWriter23 7y agoThe instructor had the only admin account and I had changed the password to his account; he was locked out.