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[niobexrev]

[SPEC] Root's password?

[bakntime]

Re: [SPEC] Root's password?

[Sh1ft]

No, root is the super-user/admin on a UNIX box. Little-boxes has been haxx0r3d.

[yeahyeah]

root is highest permission level on a unix or unix like machine..
I think the name was meant to prove that AI man was the rearranger, and that he had complete access to at least little-boxes..

Sample passwd file from a linux machine:
root:x:0:0:Root User:/root:/bin/bash
bin:x:1:1:bin:/bin:/sbin/nologin
daemon:x:2:2:daemon:/sbin:/sbin/nologin

[Sh1ft]

Hmmm, it might as well be:

rootSPLATunderscorehosting.com

Unless PDA man got access to Beth's account and cracked into _.

[BrianEnigma]

A couple of notes:

* Often the root account's password is useless without another login's password. For security reasons, modern Unix systems do not let root log in (via SSH, telnet, FTP, etc). Usually root does not send or receive email, but received messages for rootSPLATdomain.com get forwarded to a more "everyday" user account. In order to access the root account, you typically log in as an everyday (non-root) user, then issue a command to switch over to root access (typically "su" or "sudo").

* It is REALLY EASY to forge mail headers. Just because it says it is from rootSPLATdomain.com does not mean it is really from that account. This ease of header-forging is why there is so much spam and so many viruses. It is entirely possible the silent man does not have an account from which to send email, so simply used what was at hand (forging a message from Beth as root to Beth on her everyday account).

After everything is said and done, I think we can safely ignore "root@little-boxes.net."

[niobexrev]

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[niobexrev]

When you've succeded in convincing the author of this thread that this is nothing to be looked into, just let it go.

[bagsbee]

Imagine you're a program and you want to communicate with a specifc person, in this case Beth...and now you have access to "lots of computing power". Follow the logical steps...

- Beth has an account here (Metadex)
- I want to send an email to Beth
- I need a Metadex account
- What account will give me all access?
- I'll take over "root" account

From "his" perspective, gaining root is trivial, he's a program...and not some run-of-the-mill program either.

[Bamba-MAN]

What PDA means? I know who is the strange AI man but I don't understand what is PDA?

[Giskard]

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