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- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!cserver!edsi!chuck
- From: chuck@edsi.plexus.COM (Chuck Tomasi)
- Subject: Re: root access over NFS
- Organization: Enterprise Data Systems Incorporated, Appleton WI
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 22:20:31 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.222031.15434@edsi.plexus.COM>
- References: <1992Sep13.160455.4449@pollux.lu.se> <BuJ3uJ.8ML@ie.utoronto.ca>
- Lines: 68
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- andy@ie.utoronto.ca (Andy Sun) writes:
-
- :)COMMANDS COMMENTS
- :)---------------------------------- -------------------------------
- :)# adb -w /hp-ux Run the absolute debugger with
- :)executable file = /hp-ux the write option on the kernel
- :)core file = core
- :)ready
-
- :)nobody?D Display 'nobody' in decimal
- :)_nobody: -2 System's repsonse: its value is -2
-
- :)nobody?W0 Use a 4-byte write to change the
- :) contents of 'nobody' to 0
- :)_nobody: 0xFFFFFFFE = 0x0 System's response: its value is now 0
-
- :)nobody?D Display (in decimal) the contents
- :) of 'nobody' to double-check
- :)_nobody: 0 System's response: its value is still 0
-
- :)$q Type '$q' to exit adb
-
-
- This patch (as noted) will only patch /hp-ux. If you don't want to
- reboot right away you should also patch the file /dev/kmem. You can do
- both at once with the command:
-
- # adb -w /hp-ux /dev/kmem
-
- If you have plans of regenerating a new kernel some day (adding device
- drivers, modifying kernel parameters, etc) you'll have to do this all
- over again. I called HP and asked how I could make this more permanent
- since I didn't want to patch the kernel after every iteration of a new
- kernel. They said they couldn't say (another unsupported feature.) I
- went ahead and hacked away and asked on the net. I got the answer from
- both about the same time, but you need to go into the directory
- /etc/conf (on 400 systems) and /etc/conf/lib (on 700 systems) and use
- the "ar" command to extract the file nfs_server.o from the library
- archive libnfs.a. This can be done with the command:
-
- # ar xv libnfs.a nfs_server.o
-
- Again, use adb in the same way as above to patch the file nfs_server.o
- and put it back in the file libnfs.a with the command:
-
- # ar uv libnfs.a nfs_server.o
-
- Now every time you regenerate a new kernel you don't have to do the
- patch since nobody is already set to 0 in the library that gets linked
- in. Pretty neat.
-
- NOTE: This is all from memory (especially the part about the 700
- library). My notes on this are at work and I'm writing this from home.
- I apologize for the misplacement of directories or filenames, but it
- should get you started in the right direction.
-
- !!BIG NOTE!! This is a security hole in your ENTIRE system since anyone
- who gains root access can create, delete, and modify files on other
- machines who have the kernel patch. That is the primary reason HP
- doesn't support this feature.
-
- !! SUPER BIG NOTE !! If the whole thing blows up and you lose data - I
- had nothing to do with it so don't call me. :)
- --
- Chuck Tomasi | "It's my job to help
- chuck@edsi.plexus.COM | but I don't have to like it."
- spool!cserver!edsi!chuck | -Dr. Crusher, "I, Borg"
- ------<Enterprise Data Systems Incorporated, Appleton Wisconsin>------
-