I have a telnet access to a mandrake linux server,default port.....now on loging on i found that i had the access to the root directory..with read only access to major files (profile etc.)...now i want the root password of that system(just for fun)..i have recently started toying with linux (owing to the ever popular topics floating around)....and obviously have no idea of how to go about it..i did try searching for pwd file but no luck..........help mE!!


it does sound lame but what is the equivalent of dir a*.* /s/a/p in linux

ls a* -R does not give the desired results