RE: user name from security logs

From: Andrew Shore (andrew.shore_at_holistecs.com)
Date: 05/31/05

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To: "pierpaolo giacomin" <yrzto6@gmail.com>, "Emmanuel Goldstein" <goldstein101@gmail.com>

    Of course depending upon when you are (country) the ex-employee may have
    a legal obligation to give you the passwords. If he has "forgotten" the
    password he may be forced to remember whilst sitting in his cell.

    -----Original Message-----
    From: pierpaolo giacomin [mailto:yrzto6@gmail.com]
    Sent: 31 May 2005 09:05
    To: Emmanuel Goldstein
    Cc: security-basics@securityfocus.com
    Subject: Re: user name from security logs

    On Sun, 29 May 2005 22:26:42 +0200
    Emmanuel Goldstein <goldstein101@gmail.com> wrote:

    > Hi everybody.
    >
    > I've recently started to work in an Internet Cafe wich has a network
    > of 10 Pc's running linux (Debian Woody). The thing is that the guy
    > that was in charge of the network left without leaving the admin
    > password cause he was fired, so now we can only access the computers
    > with a regular user account.
    >
    > I have physical access to the computer and i can also access all hd's
    > files using a LiveCD linux distribution.

    ok, it's enough...
    you have to mount / or /etc in rw and delete the x between ":" on the
    root's line in /etc/passwd so you can log without password and then
    change it.

    root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/sh -> root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/sh

    ./pier 

    -- 
    "I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though
she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I
worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy,
where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the
Internet?'"
    --Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation
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