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Re: #chsh -s /usr/bin/passwd - by misteke



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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