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Article #254Re: MAGIC lost root passwd, stuffed init
From: Rowan D. Hughes
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 00:00
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 00:00
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On 21 Oct 1997 23:40:25 GMT, Graham Philip Crowe <gpc01@wraith.cs.uow.edu.au> wrote: >I have come across a magic little command to allow you to get back into your >system if you have lost / forgotten your root password or if you have stuffed >sometAhing up majorly in your init files. > >at the lilo prompt type > ^[OA >lilo boot: linux init=/bin/bash rw > A >This will start your computer by loading the kernel and not starting ANYTHING >else except bash. You will not have any networking or swap space or mounted f >filesystems. Why not just boot with the rescue ramdisk. You can have bash and more! Also, If you have, for example, a diskless server in a public area the floppy must be swithced off for non-root access on the servers /tftpboot area. It's possible for a naughty person to become root on the client. -- ================================================================= Rowan Hughes, Maths Dept, James Cook University. x-csrdh@lion.jcu.edu.au
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,5c292b37d0058012,start X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public X-Google-Thread: 10a997,5c292b37d0058012,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10a997,public From: rowan@tsunami.jcu.edu.au (Rowan D. Hughes) Subject: Re: MAGIC lost root passwd, stuffed init Date: 1997/10/23 Message-ID: <slrn64ulhv.d5.rowan@tsunami.jcu.edu.au> X-Deja-AN: 282628283 References: <62jeh9$5rs$1@wyrm.its.uow.edu.au> Organization: University of Queensland Newsgroups: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,aus.computers.linux