Glynn Clements wrote:
If an attacker can get physical access to the system, you lose.
This has been amply demonstrated to me by my three-year-old.
Andrew
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joy merwin monteiro wrote:
> My Debian System asks for a password even in single mode...
> Your solutino would probably work on RH and variants
> Which is OK in this case, but in case somesone needs to know...
That's why I suggested using "init=/bin/sh". That will never ask for a
password.
. Or
install a keystroke logger into the keyboard to capture the root
password.
If an attacker can get physical access to the system, you lose.
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On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 20:39:40 -0800 (PST), Ankit Jain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>i started the question not to hack any system but i
>was curious to know that in linux its easy to change
>the root passwd
>in this case the authenticity is a problem. still it
>can be changed by a boot CD even i thin
ty.com or the security advisorys on
linux.com
>
> regards,
>
> ankit
> --- Ray Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > At 10:55 AM 4/1/2005 -0600, Eric Bambach wrote:
> > >On Wednesday 30 March 2005 08:36 am, Ray Olszewski
> > wrote:
> > > > Any
AIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 10:55 AM 4/1/2005 -0600, Eric Bambach wrote:
> >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
> syst
ote:
> >
> > > i have forgotten my root pasword. i had installed
> > > redhat linux 9.0 kernel version 2.4 with grub loader.
> > > if somebody can tell me how to change the password
> > > without logging.
> >
>
> first you have to boot the computer
gle user mode, with single
user mode you dont need to root password.
To get into single user mode from GRUB, highlight the linux operating system
you want to boot.
After the line is highlighted, press 'e'. 'e' will get you into the GRUB
editor. Next, highlight the line that
kes it appear that the two
> suggestions you respond to are mine, and I just wanted to make it
> clear that they are not. Neither would have been responsive to the
> message that started this thread ... a user who forgot his own root
> password looking for a workaround.
I don't want
o make it clear that they are not.
Neither would have been responsive to the message that started this thread
... a user who forgot his own root password looking for a workaround.
In a modern setting, neither of these suggestions is very useful ... only
amazingly insecure systems would be vulnera
Hi Ray!
On Friday, 1. April 2005 18:52 Ray wrote:
>> [...]
> [..]
> Get the shadow file and crack
Yeah, I've done this on a big system and about 90% of the users used
weak passwords.
> [...]
> Sniff the password from telnet/unsecure services
Who is still using telnet? I wouldn't use telnet on a se
On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 10:23 -0800, Ray Olszewski wrote:
(snipped)
>
> If you (and Tobias, and anyone else) feel differently, then you should
> act
> on your beliefs and provide this sort of information on request, I
> suppose.
> So I do apologize for the suggestion that my personal view here
>
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> At 10:55 AM 4/1/2005 -0600, Eric Bambach wrote:
> >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
At 10:55 AM 4/1/2005 -0600, Eric Bambach wrote:
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 advic
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
> anywh
On Friday 01 April 2005 10:23 am, Tobias Hirning wrote:
> Hi Ray!
>
> > [...]
> > 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 th
Hi Ray!
> [...]
> 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.
Why shouldn't we know how th
rescue disk (floppy or CD, depending on your hardware); mount the
filesystem with the password problem at some convenient mount point; and
delete the root password entry from /etc/shadow . Then reboot normally, log
in as root (with no password) and set a new root password. Do all of this
with
hi
i have forgotten my root pasword. i had installed
redhat linux 9.0 kernel version 2.4 with grub loader.
if somebody can tell me how to change the password
without logging.
thanks
ankit
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