[1784] in bugtraq
Re: password backdoors (on Apollo)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Thorson)
Thu May 11 11:20:29 1995
To: System Admin <root@sentinet.demon.co.uk>
Cc: bugtraq <bugtraq@fc.net>
From: Dan Thorson <Dan_Thorson@notes.seagate.com>
Date: 11 May 95 8:02:37 EDT
Sure, shut the machine, REset, then (and I can't remember the exact sequence)
you should be able to modify the /etc/passwd file, re-start the OS, root has
the password (or lack thereof) you set up in the previous step.
Just another example of physical security being important.
dct
