[luau] Lilo to get root shell

MonMotha monmotha at indy.rr.com
Tue Jul 2 10:27:00 PDT 2002


You didn't know that?

There's numerous ways to root a box you haev physical access to. 
Basically, if an attacker has physical access, you're 0wn3d buddy.

linux single
linux 1
*(Above two won't work on some distros, slack comes to mind as it's 
sulogin requires a root pw)

linux init=/bin/bash (completly bypass normal startup and spawn a root 
shell, no login needed)

Use a bootdisk
Remove hard drive and mount in a different machine

If the attacker has physical access, consider yourself screwed (unless 
you have an encrypted FS that requires a passphrase at startup).

--MonMotha

(quote cut because it was really long)




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