Re: Bypass grub edit protection password

["Adrián Puente Z. " <apuente () hackarandas com>]

Nik, 

Some Bios works with other than F2 try escape or supr. Those have worked for me. If that didn't work out try clicking 
slowly one by one all the Fs some Bios are slower than others. Also you can check in the device manual to see if there 
other way to tweak the BIOS 

Some devices by default boot trying the PXE (Preboot eXecution Environment). If you are able to manipulate the NIC you 
can create a one on one network with your pentest laptop and the device you only needs DHCP and TFTP (I would 
personally use a VM with the interface in bridge mode ). Check in google for "install ubuntu from network pxe netboot" 
and try to load Ubuntu directly from the network. 

That's all I can think about this right now. 

Good luck! 

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On Feb 9, 2012, at 3:26, Nik <foringer () gmail com> wrote:

> Hello list!
>
> I'm doing a physical pentest of the blackbox network security device
> and need your help in it :).
>
> Device is a hardware protected linux box with serail and ethernet
> ports available. It is running on Intel platform.
>
> Conditions of the testing is that I need to receive privilege (root)
> access to the box, but I cannot open it and get direct access to the
> hard drives.
>
> Form the serial connection, while booting I've got information that it
> is running CentOS 4.1. I can select different kernels while the system
> in grub menu, but I cannot enter edit mode, because it is password
> protected. After selecting anything from grub menu the system boots,
> but the output to the serial console terminates.
>
> I've tried to boot device from CD-ROM live cd and USB flash, but has
> not success with it - the first boot device in BIOS is internal
> harddrive.
>
> While booting I cannot enter BIOS setup - do not know why - the F2 key
> simple does not work!
>
> So thats the story, I'm stack now and need your help very much. Thank
> you in advanced....
>
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