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John McDen
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Find your System Root Passwd

Hello friends

This command will give you the root password of your UNIX system

echo '82 43/25 43+65P80P82P73P76P32P70P79P79P76P10P' | dc

Good Luck, and have fun :-)

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John Strang
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Re: Find your System Root Passwd

OK John,

I'll admit that I tried this :-)
But I'm sure I'm not the only one.........
If you never make a mistake you'll never make anything.
Trond Haugen
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Re: Find your System Root Passwd

:-)
Reminds me of the old 'make money'.
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Bill McNAMARA_1
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Re: Find your System Root Passwd

that's not my root password! ;)

Bill
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John Strang
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Re: Find your System Root Passwd

Hi again,

It would be interesting if it set the root password :-))
If you never make a mistake you'll never make anything.
Mateja Bezjak
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Re: Find your System Root Passwd

Hi John,

I had to try it to see what comes out...
That's a good one :-).
Darrell Allen
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Re: Find your System Root Passwd

Hi John,

Nothing like a little humor to start the day!

Darrell
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Paula J Frazer-Campbell
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Re: Find your System Root Passwd

How did you know my root password?


Paula
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Emiel van Grinsven
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Re: Find your System Root Passwd

Nice one! :-)

Shouldn't we post this on a security site next year 1 april? :-)

Emiel
Jon Mattatall
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Re: Find your System Root Passwd

Now if I can just convince the new guy this is an "undo" command.........

.....only to be used in the direst of situations, of course.

Jon
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John Bolene
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Re: Find your System Root Passwd

I like that and it also taught me something about dc which I did not know existed.

Thanks
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S.K. Chan
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Re: Find your System Root Passwd

OH MY GOD .. it actually works, I better start taking MCSE courses !
Jack_27
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Re: Find your System Root Passwd

Hi,John

It looks like a little joke,right?
My result:APRIL FOOL

Cheers
Jack
Bill McNAMARA_1
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Re: Find your System Root Passwd

this works too:

echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln256%Pln256/snlbx]sb3135071790101768542287578439snlbxq'|dc

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Bill McNAMARA_1
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Re: Find your System Root Passwd

 
It works for me (tm)
Marc Dijkstra
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Re: Find your System Root Passwd

Brilliant stuff....

Bill, that is not an april fools joke, that is quadruple bypass and brain explosion material is what that is ;-)

Cheers, thanks for the laugh!

MND
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Animesh Chakraborty
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Re: Find your System Root Passwd

hi John,
I liked it and thanks for sharing with us.
Did you take a backup?
John Carr_2
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Re: Find your System Root Passwd

Hi

:-) I wonder how many people actually tried this !!!


John.
Justo Exposito
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Re: Find your System Root Passwd

Hi John,

I'll tried and not this is not my root password, this is because the same day in Spain and in Spanish is:
Los Santos inocentes
Inocents Saints

and this is celebrate at November 28th.

Can you give me a Spanish version?

Regards,

Justo.
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