It is my understanding that the password protects the image during boot only
and so to fix the problem one would boot from a floppy of CDROM, edit the
lilo.conf to remove the password and execute lilo against the new
configuration file. Of course at the same time you would remove the root
password from /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow as necessary.
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Simon Olievr
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From: "Paul Miles"
If he password protected LILO you have pretty much had it. Your best bet would be to try legal ways of forcing him to disclose the password.
Is this true? I've never tried this, but can't you boot from a dos disk and issue : fdisk /mbr which will remove lilo.
You'll then just need to boot a rescue system and remove the boot password from /etc/shadow.
Paul.
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To: Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 9:09 AM Subject: Re: [SLE] Hacking linux Dear sirs month ago i read that there is a way to gain the root privileges' over a linux box - with a little trick. Now, i do not remember that trick, but one of our sysadmins left the company and he doesn't want to give back that password. Is there anyone that knows that little trick? Is there anyone that knows how to configure lilo to protect from that
On 13 Sep 2001 10:02:03 +0200, Gabriele Biondo wrote: trick?
That would be great, it would save me the time to search among lotsa
articles.
Thanks in advance
Yours truly
Gabriele Biondo
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If he password protected LILO you have pretty much had it. Your best bet would be to try legal ways of forcing him to disclose the password.
Matt
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