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Subject: Re: [HELP] I lost root password!
From: "Joseph S. D. Yao" <jsdy @ cospo . osis . gov>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 16:48:48 -0400
To: geoff @ mulligan . com, jsdy @ washington . cospo . osis . gov
Cc: Firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM

> I'm not the one confusing /etc/shadow and /etc/passwd!

That's why I was blushing.

> Hardly.  I was programming on UNIX probably before you were born - back
> when UNIX was V6 and there was no such thing as VI, only ed.  BUT, why
> make things more complicated than they have to be - the more complex the
> greater likelihood of mistakes.

Geoff, Geoff.  Don't try to pull rank.  I started with Fifth Edition.
At HARV-11, in the early 1970's (pre-domain names).  You have no idea
how old I am, or what I have done (much of it behind locked and sealed
doors, unfortunately).

> I use cat > filename. ;-)

Ah, the sign of a true GuRu.	;-) ;-)

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