Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 15 May 2003 00:37:35 +0300 (IDT) | From | Yoav Weiss <> | Subject | Re: The disappearing sys_call_table export. |
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> Not so, with the latest Red Hat distribution (9). You can no longer > set init=/bin/bash at the boot prompt.... well you can set it, but > then you get an error about killing init. This caused a neighbor > a lot of trouble when she accidentally put a blank line in the > top of /etc/passwd. Nobody could log-in. I promised to show her > how to "break in", but I wasn't able to. I had to take her hard-disk > to my house, mount it, and fix the password file. All these "attempts" > at so-called security do is make customers pissed. >
1. Insert Live-System CD (Knoppix for example) 2. Boot from it. 3. Mount rootfs. 4. Fix things. 5. Remove CD and reboot.
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