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Re: user name from security logs
From: pierpaolo giacomin <yrzto6 () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 10:04:54 +0200
On Sun, 29 May 2005 22:26:42 +0200 Emmanuel Goldstein <goldstein101 () gmail com> wrote:
Hi everybody. I've recently started to work in an Internet Cafe wich has a network of 10 Pc's running linux (Debian Woody). The thing is that the guy that was in charge of the network left without leaving the admin password cause he was fired, so now we can only access the computers with a regular user account. I have physical access to the computer and i can also access all hd's files using a LiveCD linux distribution.
ok, it's enough... you have to mount / or /etc in rw and delete the x between ":" on the root's line in /etc/passwd so you can log without password and then change it. root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/sh -> root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/sh ./pier -- "I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'" --Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Current thread:
- user name from security logs Peter Rodger (May 26)
- RE: user name from security logs dave kleiman (May 27)
- Re: user name from security logs Emmanuel Goldstein (May 30)
- Re: user name from security logs Dave Patterson (May 31)
- Re: user name from security logs mike (May 31)
- Reseting root password Was: user name from security logs Alexander Klimov (May 31)
- Re: user name from security logs pierpaolo giacomin (May 31)
- Resetting the root password (was: user name from security logs) Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers (May 31)
- Re: user name from security logs Tom Rhodes (May 31)
- RE: user name from security logs Miguel Dilaj (May 31)
- Re: user name from security logs Emmanuel Goldstein (May 30)
- RE: user name from security logs dave kleiman (May 27)
- Re: user name from security logs Greg Stiavetti (May 27)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: user name from security logs Kevin (May 26)
- Snort sniffer logs Tom Rhodes (May 30)
- Re: Snort sniffer logs Ron (May 31)
- Snort sniffer logs Tom Rhodes (May 30)