Re: Putty Proxy login/password discolsure....

[Robert Jaroszuk <zim () iq pl>]

Raj Mathur wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 October 2006 23:14, cardoso wrote:
>   
> > Exactly. A few years ago I used to deal with linux fanboys showing
> > them the cute trick of "linux single" at boot time. After a few
> > hours begging for the admin password, I teached the trick and they
> > usually stopped the brag about how security Linux was.
> >     
>
> Can't do that in most modern distributions today -- they're configured 
> to ask for root password before they give a single-user shell.
>
> Not that there aren't other ways around that restriction...
>   

Ever heard about "init=/bin/sh" ?
It doesn't ask for password and it gives a root shell.
If you don't have password set in lilo.conf, box is 0wned.

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