On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 04:53:40PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > nevermind. I poked around at this for a bit and I can't get it to > work. You've got to get root on that thing somehow in order to change > /etc/passwd so you can get root.... youneed a live-cd or maybe reboot > with init=/bin/bash on the kernel line. not sure on the exact syntax > of that one, but its aroudn here somewhere -- google on recovering > root password for details on that one. > Is Apache running on the remote server? If so, could upload a vulnerable PHP script and then exploit it to give yourself a remote root shell?
regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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