sunday - change passwd file

talboris

October 30 edited October 30 in Machines

so i want to replace just passwd file and instead of x i a have added a generated hash from :
openssl passwd -1 -salt sunny pass123

but i cant login with that pass

what do i miss?

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DaChef

October 31

The file that contains the actual authentication creds is the shadow one, and you can't modify it without root access!
DaChef

October 31

You can try this tho:
https://hacknpentest.com/linux-privilege-escalation-via-writeable-etc-passwd-file/

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