<div class="gmail_quote">On 19 February 2010 04:21, JLB <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:j@twu.net">j@twu.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Sweet! What was the backdoor? Adding midfun to sudoers?<br></blockquote><div><br>There is no sudo/sudoers on this netbook. This works very sweetly. What I did was copy the existing passwd file, and modified the root password entry to 'something I knew' in this copy. The original /sbin/udevd I backed up and then created a new /sbin/udevd which was a shell script to copy my edited passwd file to /etc and also call my backed up original /sbin/udevd with the '-d' argument.<br>
<br>Worked like a champ. I'm sure there are other, more elegant ways of getting a backdoor too ....<br><br>Many kudos to Oliver for spotting that! Now the fun can really start with root access to this little system!<br>
<br>Jon (who has also stopped wasting CPU cycles on john (was up to 42 hours by that stage)<br></div><div> </div></div>