full-disclosure - Root password change

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603301818490.4265@catbert.rellim.com>
Date: Fri Mar 31 03:21:32 2006
From: gem at rellim.com (Gary E. Miller)
Subject: Root password change

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Yo Kerry!

On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Kerry Thompson wrote:

> Most *nix systems these days require you to enter the root password before
> giving you a shell in single user mode.

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

The nothing runs off the root partition execpt a nice bash shell for you.

RGDS
GARY
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