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- From: newsham@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu (Timothy Newsham)
- Newsgroups: alt.hackers
- Subject: Re: My First Post.
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.004055.3846@news.Hawaii.Edu>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 00:40:55 GMT
- References: <BtJzvF.6Bx@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1992Aug25.214056.11488@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
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- In article <1992Aug25.214056.11488@klaava.Helsinki.FI> torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) writes:
- >In article <BtJzvF.6Bx@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> devros@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Devros) writes:
- >>Well, Here goes....
- >
- >And on two /long/ lines..
- >
- >>ObHack: 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.
- >
- > Linus
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- what about character and block devices?
- a nice kmem, mem or disk device that is writeable would do you good.
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