Re: [Full-disclosure] Rooting Linux with a floppy

2005-07-17 Thread sec-list
Hello, Lauro, John wrote: (Of course with windows you generally need at least a boot CD to get enough tools to do anything useful). NACK, see http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ GTi ___ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.

Re: [Full-disclosure] Rooting Linux with a floppy

2005-07-16 Thread als
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 04:23:31PM -0800, Sumy wrote: > You have lost your root password on your linux box and now you > consider formatting > everythign to regain control? Your admin is a moron that leaves the > server available > physically for everybody? You wanna test your Linux box? Don't worr

RE: [Full-disclosure] Rooting Linux with a floppy

2005-07-15 Thread Dolan, Patrick
Or maybe you are just sarcasm-challenged? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 11:02 AM To: FULLDISC Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Rooting Linux with a floppy -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1

RE: [Full-disclosure] Rooting Linux with a floppy

2005-07-15 Thread Eric Paynter
On Fri, July 15, 2005 8:47 am, James Longstreet said: > On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Lauro, John wrote: > >> 6.2? What is that??? Latest kernel is 2.6... > > No, not kernel 6.2, LINUX 6.2. You know, that old version. Linux 10 has > been out for months. This is sadly funny in a pathetic sort of way...

Re: [Full-disclosure] Rooting Linux with a floppy

2005-07-15 Thread Ron
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 _Linux_ doesn't have a version 10, either. Linux IS the kernel, which the versions are 2.x (2.4.* and 2.6.* usually). Maybe you're talking about a specific distribution? In which case, that's a pretty inconsistant numbering system to use since Red Ha

RE: [Full-disclosure] Rooting Linux with a floppy

2005-07-15 Thread James Longstreet
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Lauro, John wrote: > 6.2? What is that??? Latest kernel is 2.6... No, not kernel 6.2, LINUX 6.2. You know, that old version. Linux 10 has been out for months. ___ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.o

Re: [Full-disclosure] Rooting Linux with a floppy

2005-07-15 Thread Nicolas CARTRON
On Friday 15 July 2005 13:04, Lauro, John wrote: > 6.2? What is that??? Latest kernel is 2.6... Perhaps RH 6.2 ? ;) ___ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia

Re: [Full-disclosure] Rooting Linux with a floppy

2005-07-15 Thread Harry de Grote
On Friday 15 July 2005 02:23, Sumy wrote: > You have lost your root password on your linux box and now you > consider formatting > everythign to regain control? Your admin is a moron that leaves the > server available > physically for everybody? You wanna test your Linux box? Don't worry > if you h

Re: [Full-disclosure] Rooting Linux with a floppy

2005-07-15 Thread Rik Bobbaers
On Friday 15 July 2005 02:23, Sumy wrote: > You have lost your root password on your linux box and now you > consider formatting > everythign to regain control? Your admin is a moron that leaves the > server available > physically for everybody? You wanna test your Linux box? Don't worry > if you h

Re: [Full-disclosure] Rooting Linux with a floppy

2005-07-15 Thread Dan Becker
Boot this http://www.trinux.org/ then mount the drive ... chroot to the drives root and run passwd its not a complicated process On 7/14/05, Sumy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You have lost your root password on your linux box and now you > consider formatting > everythign to regain control? Y

RE: [Full-disclosure] Rooting Linux with a floppy

2005-07-15 Thread Lauro, John
[EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sumy > Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 8:24 PM > To: SBUGTRAQ > Cc: FULLDISC > Subject: [Full-disclosure] Rooting Linux with a floppy > > You have lost your root password on your linux box and now > you consider forma

Re: [Full-disclosure] Rooting Linux with a floppy

2005-07-15 Thread Dunceor .
well they seem to only publish old articles, articles i guess they dont got authorization to publish. On 7/15/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sumy wrote: > > [...] Don't worry if you have at least a floppy rescue disk under > > hand,you can root it ;-) ) > > > > The problem with

Re: [Full-disclosure] Rooting Linux with a floppy

2005-07-15 Thread sec-list
Sumy wrote: [...] Don't worry if you have at least a floppy rescue disk under hand,you can root it ;-) ) The problem with the new version of Linux since 6.2 is : http://www.exploitx.com/69/rooting-linux-with-a-floppy/ Really old news... GTi ___ Ful

Re: [Full-disclosure] Rooting Linux with a floppy

2005-07-15 Thread Kurt Seifried
Uhhh.. Where to start. This is old. First off you often don't need a floppy/boot media for older systems since they tend to have insecure lilo/grub configurations. Second off all, this is really old news (yup, mentioned that already). http://www.seifried.org/security/index.php/Linux_Physical_

[Full-disclosure] Rooting Linux with a floppy

2005-07-15 Thread Sumy
You have lost your root password on your linux box and now you consider formatting everythign to regain control? Your admin is a moron that leaves the server available physically for everybody? You wanna test your Linux box? Don't worry if you have at least a floppy rescue disk under hand,you can r