On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Haggai Nyang <haggai.nyang@gmail.com> wrote:

FYI, setting a GRUB password means you have to be there physically to type in the password before it loads the GRUB entry you've protected.

Doesn't fit in for me since my servers are locked up somewhere remote and init 6 is the only way...

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Haggai Nyang <haggai.nyang@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes the grub password protects against that hack...and FEW people know of it or use it for that matter...but the livecd way totally blows it out of the water as you still get login-less root access.

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 2:44 PM, i.G <i.georg@yahoo.com> wrote:

No worries about your passwd getting changed, ensure you have a GRUB passwd.

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From: Haggai Nyang <haggai.nyang@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] UNLOCKING PASSWORD IN ROOT DIRECTORY
To: "Skunkworks Mailing List" <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke>
Date: Friday, March 26, 2010, 11:29 AM

@David that assumes the user is already a member of the sudoers file...

First result I got on google with a simple search, dunno if it will work for ubuntu, but now i'm afraid of giving a keyboard to anyone close to my fedora boxes! (shudder)

http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-hack-root-password-in-linux/

On the comments there are tips for ubuntu hacking as well, haven't tried them though...

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Alvin Jason Ochieng <ajochola@gmail.com> wrote:

UBUNTU

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> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Alvin Jason Ochieng
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>> Anyone with any Idea for unlocking this ? I have a pal with a netbook
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