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Originally Posted by DHer
with netcat we spawned a root shell, i think. so we can just create a new password hash for the passwd file and insert it there. it only works till the next update, so cracking the password is only useful for the future.
Or we just add a new user with superuser privilegues  |
I like this approach, netcat plus a different user. Plus "sudo gainroot" to go from this user to the root one.
BTW, I have found that a funny system to execute things is to use cntrl-P in the first page of a pdf file, and then selecting the "print command".