[Linux-disciples] can't root

[Karl Sokol]

Adam wrote:

>>There are many security concerns unrelated to the Internet...

Points well taken.

>You need to add init=/bin/sh to your boot line.  This is done slightly
>differently in lilo or grub; I think it's easier in grub.  You hit 'e' to
>edit the boot line, then add init=/bin/sh to the end of the line, then
>hit 'b' to boot.

My grub looks like this,

root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1-k7 root=dev/hda1 ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.4.22-1-k7
save default
boot init=/bin/sh

However, the last line didn't seem to do much.  I.e the same warning comes up.  Any further ideas?  Thanks.


>> My desktop is not attatched to the net and is in my
>> bedroom, so security isn't a big concern to me on this
>> machine.  So, I did chmod 777 *.  Now at startup, I
>> get "Starting Open BSD Secure Shell server:sshd @@@@@@
>> Warning: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE! @@@@
>> Permissions 0777 for /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key are too
>> open."  The same for dsa_key.
>> 
>> So, now I can't do any root stuff to harden the
>> permissions (like logging in on root, su, sudo, chmod
>> etc.).  A bit of an ironic catch-22.
>> 
>> Any suggestions?
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