Originally posted here by Chronomaster
Got tired of edits; now im expecting some flames flying at me, so just hold it, help me, and ill be on my way for a while. Thank you (to all the understanding people).
Flames? For what? When you sat there at the computer and decided "What the hell, I don't remember my password...Hmm, curiousity giving in, oh look I discovered something without my book"

that was appluadable. You should have stayed with that. But when you went on to ask about picking the admin locks.... That's where you left us. Well me anyway. You have that hacker's curiousity, now use it for something good.

Become friends with the admin. You don't need to be accessing things they have locked up. If it's locked up, leave it that way. BUT, go and play with the lock, if you can get it open, go tell the admin about it.

Discovering security holes, wether some like it or not, is hacking. Well a form of it anyway. The admin for my college is in a class I take, and we get along just fine. My whole set of school mates and teachers all know what I like to do in computing, but not only do they tell me they trust me, but one of my teachers said if I got into trouble at school for something hacking related, he would get me out of trouble and say it was for a project.

They trust me and know I won't do something stupid. and if I do break something they also know I would be there to help fix it. I'm also very good friends with the student admin guy. He's a Debian Linux user and we talk when we get a chance.

We talk about alot. Just tonight I was drooling over an old UNIX manual we have at school, and he was telling me some of the other things we have. We have a couple of older machines and the books for them and I love it.

My teacher let me borrow an older book tonight that I found on the shelves in my classroom. We have about 50 Novell books up there, some old MS-DOS 6.2 manuals, still in the wrapper, and a book called "UNIX for DOS users". Which is what I burrowed.

Instead of leaving this website because some people don't like your learning style; Howabout staying and learning with us? Also, go tell the admin how you were able to run things without logging in.

Unless the admin is a complete **** up he may appreciate the heads up. Also, try talking to him or her, they may appreciate a student actually caring about learning technology. You may even be able to do what I did about 2 years ago; Be the computer helper.

Instead of calling up some techs, they would call me out of class to fix things around school.

I don't see why you were flamed for wanting to fix the display. Most school machines are runnin at like 1024x768, with the screen size at about 800x600.