2 Aug
2023
2 Aug
'23
9:42 a.m.
Den ons 2 aug. 2023 kl 05:01 skrev Grant Taylor via TUHS <tuhs(a)tuhs.org>:
On 8/1/23 1:55 PM, Niklas Karlsson wrote:
Sure. Like I said, there are ways and means to avoid this. Not going to
argue against that.
Niklas
What you did with that RS/6000 sounds roughly
equivalent to booting
a modern Linux box in single-user mode, where you can also set the
root password to anything you like.
I think that's *HIGHLY* dependent on the distribution. Some systems
make it harder than others to get into single user mode. I feel like
"sulogin" comes into play here.
The thing that I used to do is append "init=/bin/sh" to the GRUB boot
line via the transient editor. Drops you at a shell and bypasses almost
all of the startup scripts. Obviously there are ways to secure against
this. But, again, it depends on the distro.