Davy, Don't be such a pretentious fop. This thread started as a complaint by someone that they could get root access by merely using a "rescue disk" My comments where made in this context and so still hold (with the exception of redhat 5--perhaps). With regard to being able to get through almost any secrity -- that was conceeded in my first post. A big DUH! to those who responded without obviously having read the whole post. Don't be so enamored with yourself, as you indicate in your post you really don't now what you are talking about but are venturing to make a guess. That's fair--but no need to be an ass about it. Again, my comments where made within the context or the ORIGINAL posted complaint. Regards, Lee Dave Smith wrote:
I know I'm at risk of feeding the trolling idiot, but...
On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 11:33:36AM -0400, leemav@attbi.com wrote:
I haven't dinked with Redhat since 5.0 but I will bet you can't do that with FreeBSD
Like I said before, I've never used FreeBSD, but I doubt it's different.
or Solaris (for the pc)
I would be willing to bet that if you removed the HDD from the machine, and plugged it into another machine, you could mount the root FS, and get access. This is effectively the same thing. The only reason that you probably can't do it is that Solaris is too big to run off a boot floppy, and no-one has bothered to write a Solaris FS driver for Linux (yet). If they have, then you could just boot a Linux bootdisk, and go in and modify anything you like.
or (please note I am loath to say this) W2kserver/Advanced Server (at least trying to breach admin permissions with a boot disk).
Again, only because no-one has written an NTFS driver for Linux (or anything else), because M$ make the thing as complicated as possible, and don't release the specs. The fact that the various security holes in M$ IIS and LookOut aren't documented didn't stop anyone from exploiting them.
Security through obscurity is no security at all.
I confess that there is a degree of "trolling" here, but not entirely. In anycase I am on my way out the door. Good luck and enjoy your weekend (if you so choose). LOL
If you truly are trolling, then I would recommend that you get a life, and then actually learn something about the subject before spouting off.
If you are not, the second recommendation holds.
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