This is more or less how I started to administer the unix cluster at my uni in 1993 as a student. I wrote a fake su program that woul d impersonate the real on

This is more or less how I started to administer the unix cluster at my uni in 1993 as a student. I wrote a fake su program that woul d impersonate the real one, asked the admin to help with something, got the root password and went to them to tell them the password a few days later. And offered my help in exchange of a seat at their shared office and my own workstation. They were glad to get someone because unix was new to them (they were using Novell). It was new to me too but I learned a huge amount of things that were actually bootstrap my IT career after my PhD.