how to get in to the root previledge from any other user

placemevinod · 01-28-2007, 12:24 AM

how to get into the root preveledge from any other user say guest who does not havi the root previledge and he does not know even the root password

wildar · 01-28-2007, 12:38 AM

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Originally Posted by placemevinod

how to get into the root preveledge from any other user say guest who does not havi the root previledge and he does not know even the root password

From command shell, can switch to root using $ su, or you can execute a command using $ sudo. Either way, you'll have to enter the root password.

Might be possible to recover the root password, try this article:
http://www.linuxforums.org/security/..._password.html

Micro420 · 01-28-2007, 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by wildar

From command shell, can switch to root using $ su, or you can execute a command using $ sudo. Either way, you'll have to enter the root password.

Not necessarily true with sudo. You can enable it so that the user's own password is acceptable and have root privileges.

wildar · 01-28-2007, 01:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Micro420

Not necessarily true with sudo. You can enable it so that the user's own password is acceptable and have root privileges.

True, but if he doesn't know how to get to root, then he doesn't know how to set the password

Quakeboy02 · 01-28-2007, 02:08 PM

"how to get into the root preveledge from any other user say guest who does not havi the root previledge and he does not know even the root password"

This is not a hackers forum.

Micro420 · 01-28-2007, 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by wildar

True, but if he doesn't know how to get to root, then he doesn't know how to set the password

Not necessarily. Ubuntu doesn't have a root account. An administrator may have given a standard user account sudo access and he could use his own password. I do this with some of my Ubuntu machines. A user creates his/her account, then I add them to the admin group, edit the sudoers file, and they are able to get root privileges with their own password. Having said that, all he has to do is ask the system admin for sudo access and he's all set up. The question is if he's trying to give root privileges to someone else, or if he's asking himself to get root privileges. His question is a little ambiguous.

UhhMaybe · 04-21-2007, 01:14 PM

I agree this is not a hackers forum. I agree about Ubuntu not using the root account and getting sudo access to {already set up} users on the system from install. I don't want to hurt anybody with hackers knowledge,...however the answer may look like this... open a terminal and type "sudo passwd root" then when asked "password:" type the password of YOUR logged in username.

XavierP · 04-21-2007, 01:41 PM

Why would any admin give a guest the opportunity to gain root acces - whether via su or sudo. Isn't that a really good way to end up with either a rootkit or with a newly formatted drive?

What exactly are you trying to do with this and why do guests need root access?