Re: Putty Proxy login/password discolsure....

[Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu>]

--On Wednesday, October 25, 2006 23:57:15 +0530 Raj Mathur 
<raju () linux-delhi org> wrote:

> On Wednesday 25 October 2006 23:14, cardoso wrote:
> > Exactly. A few years ago I used to deal with linux fanboys showing
> > them the cute trick of "linux single" at boot time. After a few
> > hours begging for the admin password, I teached the trick and they
> > usually stopped the brag about how security Linux was.
>
> Can't do that in most modern distributions today -- they're configured
> to ask for root password before they give a single-user shell.
>
> Not that there aren't other ways around that restriction...
Precisely - like booting from a Knoppix cd, mounting the drives rw....you 
get the picture.  Physical access == total access.  Worst case scenario, I 
simply remove the drives and mount them on a box that I do control.

Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/

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