Ethical Hacking

Learn to find vulnerabilities before the bad guys do! Gain real world hands on hacking experience in our state of the art hacking lab. Course designed and taught by expert instructors with years of penetration testing experience. 12 student maximum in every class. Certification attempt included in every package.
Computer Forensics Training at InfoSec Institute

Gain the in-demand skills of a certified computer examiner, learn to recover trace data left behind by fraud, theft, and cybercrime perpetrators. Discover the source of computer crime and abuse at your organization so that it never happens again. All of our class sizes are guaranteed to be 12 students or less to facilitate one-on-one interaction with one of our expert instructors.




Network Security FullDisclosure
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: [Full-disclosure] Root password change

Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Root password change
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 18:21:02 -0800 (PST)
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Yo Kerry!

On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Kerry Thompson wrote:

Most *nix systems these days require you to enter the root password before
giving you a shell in single user mode.

Trivial to defeat.  Just boot in to single user mode with these kernel
options:
        single init=/bin/bash

The nothing runs off the root partition execpt a nice bash shell for you.

RGDS
GARY
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Gary E. Miller Rellim 20340 Empire Blvd, Suite E-3, Bend, OR 97701
        gem@rellim.com  Tel:+1(541)382-8588

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFELJIR8KZibdeR3qURAmXpAKDFcFOwsZnVA0U85kxYw4aaddLbowCglg++
PhNU9qTtH2pKR/qlljirKig=
=OpFG
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

_______________________________________________
Full-Disclosure - We believe in it.
Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html
Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>