On Tue, 3 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
..
> Try to hack into your own system :).  Look for any known exploits that
> may grant you root access.  You can't recover the root password then
> but once you are root, you can change the root password to something in
> the future you can hopefully remember better.  And of course, plug the
> hole after you're done.  Promising one for Linux is wuftpd: has got a
> serious bug that grants root...several systems here have been rooted
> with this.

Unfortunately this is Solaris7. And an nmap run only shows a few open
ports (RPC, lockd, ssh) because I overzealously closed all the ports.


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