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- Path: sparky!uunet!news.uiowa.edu!root!whip
- From: root@whip.isca.uiowa.edu
- Subject: Re: My First Post.
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.211008.6234@news.uiowa.edu>
- Sender: root@whip.isca.uiowa.edu
- Approved: bush@whitehouse.gov (George Herbert Hoover Bush)
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 21:10:08 GMT
- Lines: 10, maybe 20...
- Nntp-Posting-Host: whip.isca.uiowa.edu
- Organization: ISCA
-
- In article <BtJzvF.6Bx@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> devros@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Devros) writes:
- >On the local SUN net, format a disk to SunOS and fdmount it. Copy a shell
- >to it and change permissions to setUID, setGID, and world executable. Put the
- >disk in a computer with a disk editor that you can name the media type without
- >a boot sector and find your UID on the disk, changing it to a root uid. Mount
- >it back onto the SUN and execute. I haven't tried it, but theoretically you
- >would get a setuid-root shell.
-
- Only if it fdmount allows you to mount the disk with setuid priviledges. I
- very highly doubt this is the case...
-
- Ob"Hack": Accidentally creating a runaway process that forks itself to death,
- running as root, and with real time priority, on an HP 9000/710. I
- was lucky they were created and died so fast the process table
- filled up and made the program abort so I didn't have to reboot the
- machine, but it sure locked it up solid for a few minutes!
-
- PS - my first posting here....hope I'm doing this correctly :-)
-
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- Hi, I'm a .signature worm. I've already copied myself into your .signature.
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