From: Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>
To: Ankit Jain <ankitjain1580@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org, admin <linux-admin@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: root password
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 03:48:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16976.43791.477819.662304@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050403043940.90401.qmail@web52903.mail.yahoo.com>
Ankit Jain wrote:
> i started the question not to hack any system but i
> was curious to know that in linux its easy to change
> the root passwd
It's easy *if* you have physical access to the machine. But in that
situation, you could just remove the hard drive and take it home. Or
install a keystroke logger into the keyboard to capture the root
password.
If an attacker can get physical access to the system, you lose.
--
Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-04 2:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-03 4:39 root password Ankit Jain
2005-04-03 5:05 ` Jim C. Brown
2005-04-03 5:14 ` Grant Coady
2005-04-04 2:48 ` Glynn Clements [this message]
2005-04-04 11:42 ` Andrew
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2005-03-30 7:16 Ankit Jain
2005-03-30 14:36 ` Ray Olszewski
2005-04-01 16:23 ` Tobias Hirning
2005-04-01 16:52 ` Eric Bambach
2005-04-01 18:03 ` Tobias Hirning
2005-04-02 18:53 ` Ray Olszewski
2005-04-02 19:11 ` Tobias Hirning
2005-04-01 16:55 ` Eric Bambach
2005-04-01 18:23 ` Ray Olszewski
2005-04-01 23:57 ` J.
2005-04-02 0:56 ` Peter
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