[Arm-netbook] First impressions

[Adam Gill]

I've just been playing with entering various passwords on that initial 
startup display box - if you enter the wrong password there - it says 
"incorrect password" - if you enter the keyboard cursor then you go 
straight into the account that is default.

There are some passwords in the /etc/password files - if you enter this 
into the browser ....

Adam



So I guess if we hit the correct password, we can enter root?



Jonathan Ervine wrote:
> On 17 Feb 2010, at 12:42, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote:
>
>   
>> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:43:57AM +0800, Jonathan Ervine wrote:
>>     
>>> By switching to tty1 and authenticating as the user midfun with no
>>> password I have been able to determine the following information:
>>>       
>> How do you switch to tty1.
>>
>> When I hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 I see that a few parts of the screen turn black.
>>
>> If I press enter I see black screen columns. If I type any text I won't
>> see it on the screen.
>>     
>
> Yeah - it's slightly problematic that you can't actually see what you're typing :-) however, despite how it looks you are actually on tty1 and you can run commands (after authenticating I think). By piping the output to a file, the output can be viewed in the GUI. Slightly non-intuitive I agree, but it (sorta) works.
>
> uname -a 2>&1 uname.out
>
> This command produced the output file in /home/midfun which you can view using the web browser in the GUI. Still no root access so far as I can tell. I haven't done enough key bashing in tty1 to see what happens yet.
>
> Jon
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