full-disclosure - Root password change

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Date: Fri Mar 31 15:22:23 2006
From: michael.holstein at csuohio.edu (Michael Holstein)
Subject: Root password change

> Trivial to defeat.  Just boot in to single user mode with these kernel
> options:
> 	single init=/bin/bash

Again .. only due to initial misconfiguration.

Nobody should allow alternate switches to be passed to the kernel at 
boot .. either by password-protecting the bootloader, or via firmware 
(as with OpenBoot).

/mike.