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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting root password Post 17832 by silver40 on Wednesday 20th of March 2002 02:07:37 PM
Old 03-20-2002
ok i rebooted the machine and changed the password in single user mode. it worked perfectly.

However my problem is a little more extensive than this (as usual)

I have the same root passwd on all 4 of my servers. All running Red Hat Linux.

For some odd reason the root passwd will not work on any of my servers. It looks like someone manually changed the root passwd on all my servers (sounds like a hacker).

My question is there a way to change the root passwd on all of my servers without having to reboot every single one of them or creating boot disks ?

The reason i dont want to reboot these servers is because they are production web servers.
 

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passwd.nntp

PASSWD.NNTP(5)							File Formats Manual						    PASSWD.NNTP(5)

NAME

       passwd.nntp - passwords for connecting to remote NNTP servers

DESCRIPTION

       The file /etc/news/passwd.nntp contains host-name-password triplets for use when authenticating client programs to NNTP servers.  This file
       is normally interpreted by the NNTPsendpassword routine in libinn(3).  Blank lines and lines beginning  with  a	number	sign  (``#'')  are
       ignored.  All other lines should consist of three or four fields separated by colons:
	      host:name:password
	      host:name:password:style

       The  first  field  is the name of a host, and is matched in a case-insensitive manner.  The second field is a user name, and the third is a
       password.  The optional fourth field specifies the type of authentication to use.  The  default	is  ``authinfo''  which  means	that  NNTP
       ``authinfo''  commands are used to authenticate to the remote host.  If either the username or password are empty, then the related command
       will not be sent.  (The ``authinfo'' command is a common extension to RFC 977.)

       For example:
	      ##  UUNET needs a password, MIT doesn't.
	      mit.edu:bbn::authinfo
	      uunet.uu.net:bbn:yoyoma:authinfo

       This file should not be world-readable.

HISTORY

       Written by Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews.  This is revision 1.14, dated 1996/09/06.

SEE ALSO

       innd(8), libinn(3).

																    PASSWD.NNTP(5)
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