Re: hack that changes root to Root
From: Yotam Rubin (yotam@makif.omer.k12.il)Date: 02/26/02
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Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 21:17:27 +0200 To: incidents@securityfocus.com From: Yotam Rubin <yotam@makif.omer.k12.il>
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 05:49:05PM -0700, James wrote:
> Anyone know of a hack that changes root (user name) to Root ?
The login name or the real name? The former is abstractly achieved by
"cat /etc/{passwd,shadow} | sed 's/^root:/Root/'". This may break some
scripts you currently use, and well, the security gain is insignificant.
Regards, Yotam Rubin
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