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Re: cron in cygwin
On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 01:37:25AM -0400, Bill C. Riemers wrote:
> It turns out the problem is I used an old Unix trick to "su". Under XP Home
> edition, the "SYSTEM"
> account does not have a password assigned, and the "passwd" command fails to
> assign a password
> to it. Consequently "login" does not work for logging in as SYSTEM. The
> "su" command also fails
> do to the way setuid is implemented under XP. However, the old hackers
> trick is if you have write
> access to the /etc/passwd file, just change the UID of an account you can
> login to, and make sure that
> account is listed after the real account. So, I changed "docbill" to UID
> 18. Walla, when I start a new
> console, I am SYSTEM. Then I just edit the UID back to normal, for my next
> login.
That's way easier:
Add a home dir and a useful shell to SYSTEM's /etc/passwd entry:
SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18:/home/system:/bin/bash
Then: Install sshd as service, create a private/public key pair, put
the public key into /home/system/.ssh/authorized_keys and login to your
system using `ssh -l system localhost'.
Or: Install inetd as service, remove the `*' from SYSTEM's password
field and login to localhost using rlogin or telnet.
Corinna
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