Re: root password

[Eric Bambach <eric@cisu.net>]

On Wednesday 30 March 2005 08:36 am, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> Any other suggestion of how to become root without knowing the root
> password is a technique for breaking into systems, and I (and I hope
> everyone else) will not give advice on that publicly, in this forum or
> anywhere else.

I respectfully disagree. How will sysadmins ever know how to secure their 
systems unless they know HOW break-ins occur. Certainly most hacking doesnt 
come from boot CDs but having a more informed sysadmin is infinitely better 
than one that only discovers how to make their system more secure *AFTER* 
being broken into.

What you are saying is that security through obscurity is good and there have 
been countless rebuttals on just how horrible security though obscurity is in 
99% of the situations. The only reason for S.T.O. is a company that found an 
exploit and is giving lead-time to the vendor to patch their vulnerable 
software.

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--EB

> All is fine except that I can reliably "oops" it simply by trying to read
> from /proc/apm (e.g. cat /proc/apm).
> oops output and ksymoops-2.3.4 output is attached.
> Is there anything else I can contribute?

The latitude and longtitude of the bios writers current position, and
a ballistic missile.

                --Alan Cox LKML-December 08,2000 

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