"Mcintosh, Duncan" wrote:
>
> Have you tried at boot up to run linux single?. That should get you started.
To find the answer I duplicated the problem he had. The answer is no,
you can't specify runlevel 1, nor can you specify init=/bin/sh. The
problem is that in all of these methods, the linux kernel still tries to
pass off control to init. init quickly dies and you are left with a
kernel panic.
I sent him a private reply because in the process of finding the answer,
I found something that was a little disconcerting, namely how easy it
was to get root on the machine. I am thinking over things before I
publicize it. In retrospect, I don't like how easy it was to get root
in this case. Of course, if you have console access to ANY x86 machine,
getting root is trivial.
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