On Wednesday 30 March 2005 08:36 am, Ray Olszewski wrote: > Any other suggestion of how to become root without knowing the root > password is a technique for breaking into systems, and I (and I hope > everyone else) will not give advice on that publicly, in this forum or > anywhere else.
I respectfully disagree. How will sysadmins ever know how to secure their systems unless they know HOW break-ins occur. Certainly most hacking doesnt come from boot CDs but having a more informed sysadmin is infinitely better than one that only discovers how to make their system more secure *AFTER* being broken into. What you are saying is that security through obscurity is good and there have been countless rebuttals on just how horrible security though obscurity is in 99% of the situations. The only reason for S.T.O. is a company that found an exploit and is giving lead-time to the vendor to patch their vulnerable software. -- ---------------------------------------- --EB > All is fine except that I can reliably "oops" it simply by trying to read > from /proc/apm (e.g. cat /proc/apm). > oops output and ksymoops-2.3.4 output is attached. > Is there anything else I can contribute? The latitude and longtitude of the bios writers current position, and a ballistic missile. --Alan Cox LKML-December 08,2000 ---------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
