From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Miguel_Gonz=E1lez_Casta=F1os?= Subject: Re: Root Permissions Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 09:12:49 +0200 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40E50AF1.8010207@tid.es> References: <20040701050425.GA7890@cmi.ac.in> <20040701084248.GA21579@cmi.ac.in> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-reply-to: <20040701084248.GA21579@cmi.ac.in> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format="flowed" To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org Anindya Mozumdar escribi=F3: >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 wha= t > 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. > =20 > Then try to join a hacking mailing list, this mailing list might not be the kind of list you are looking for. Using tools and programs that you dont know what they do (at least roughly) just to become root in a system, as Crag has said is a script kiddie behaviour... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html