Re: RedHat Annoyances

[Alan Mead <adm ipat com>]

At 12:35 AM 10/12/99 -0700, Duncan Kinder wrote:

I was going to suggest that the command you wanted was "d:\setup.exe" but
then it occurred to me that Windows will soon be based on the NT model
requiring a password.  So...

>I also previously had the belief that one of the virtues of Linux was that
>you could do what you wanted with it.

I guess you NEED Linux otherwise you're not going to have the choices you
want.  That's the beauty of an open OS, you can modify it to your delight.

I think null passwords, like:

root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash

should work.  If it doesn't, please describe exactly what happens and the
version you are using.

If you know any programming, and if you installed the source, you could
probably also hack login to do this.  You could probably download one...
Or, set your machine on the net for an evening and I'm sure some friendly
cracker would be happy to install his for you.

On my copies of RH, only root has the 'rm -i' alias so I see that you are
doing everything as root.  I think a more convenient way to compromise your
system will be to give yourself UID 0 as in:

Duncan::0:0:Not afraid of danger:/home/Duncan:/bin/bash

BTW, I'm sure you realize that these are hardly unique to RedHat or even Linux.
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