r00t passwd

[Michael Shigorin]

On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 09:01:51AM -0500, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> > Hm, maybe you'll do me a favour and help with resetting one?
> > pad:~> sudo grep ^root: /etc/shadow 
> > Password:
> > root:x:13144::::::
> If "sudo passwd root" doesn't allow you to set or change it,

Eek, it does. :)  I could have just shown the line though.

> something is seriously broken with your PAM installation, in
> ways the Ubuntu install doesn't do.

It's obviously not Ubuntu, it's a system with pam_tcb.
(as installed)

Just to comment on the ability to (re)set root password in any
Linux system one might stumble upon: I don't even know if booting
with init=/bin/bash and then doing something like

mount -o rw,remount /
passwd
mount -o ro,remount /
<ctrl-alt-del>

is going to work on some RSBAC or maybe SELinux systems...

(using single mode on "pad" won't help an attacker since 
it will drop to sulogin after booting up)

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