From: Anindya Mozumdar <anindya@cmi.ac.in>
To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Root Permissions
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 14:12:48 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040701084248.GA21579@cmi.ac.in> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040701050425.GA7890@cmi.ac.in>
Hi,
Probably I framed the question badly, so everyone has misunderstood
what I asked. I am not at all interested in reinstalling or
preventing my friend from doing what he wants. I wanted to know what
he may have possibly setup so that he can become root any time, so
that I can do the same. And I wanted to know how it can be reversed,
so that my own system is protected from such attacks.
Thanks.
Anindya.
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 10:34:25AM +0530, Anindya Mozumdar wrote:
> Hi,
> The following problem may be trivial to some of you, however my
> knowledge of linux is limited, and I dont understand how can it be
> done.
> In our institute, we use Debian Linux, and the boot loader is lilo.
> For those machines where the lilo password is not set, ANY ONE can
> get a root shell by simply interrupting the boot process and typing
> linux init=/bin/sh in the boot prompt.
> One of my friends obtained a root shell in this manner, and has
> either made some changes, or set up some program, by which he can
> become root any time, without acutally knowing the root password,
> which is known only to our system administrator. What may be the
> possible things he has done to setup his program, and how can it be
> reversed ?
> Thanks in advance.
> Anindya Mozumdar.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-01 8:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-01 5:04 Root Permissions Anindya Mozumdar
2004-07-01 5:34 ` Ahsan Ali
2004-07-01 8:13 ` Alexander Economou
2004-07-02 18:27 ` Bradley Hook
2004-07-01 8:42 ` Anindya Mozumdar [this message]
2004-07-01 13:25 ` Adam Lang
2004-07-02 7:12 ` Miguel González Castaños
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2004-07-01 8:51 Craig McDonald
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