Hack Your Own Linux System

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Linux is considered to be the most Secure Operating System to be hacked or cracked and in reality it is, still we will be discussing some of the loop-holes and exploits of a Linux System. We will be using CentOS Linux throughout the article as an article to crack our own machine’s security.
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http://www.tecmint.com/how-to-hack-your-own-linux-system/

This reminds me of a discussion we had a couple of years ago, if you have physical access to the machine, why bother with cracking passwords, just boot a security LiveCD.
:p
 
You can hack any server you have physical access to.
Sure you can put those protections in but then it makes recovery more difficult if it were needed.
 
I'm new to Linux, so some of the stuff might be over my head, but the first article was easy to follow.
I might learn something this way.
I've subscribed to this thread, so I hope you will keep it going.
 
Well doing normal everyday stuff in linux is so much of a chore, I suppose it could be described as hacking your own system.
 
abandonallhope said:
Well doing normal everyday stuff in linux is so much of a chore, I suppose it could be described as hacking your own system.
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Lol Amen to that.
The GUI stuff is easy and although I'm not new to in line commands, the linux metod of thinking and structure and terminology still baffles me. It has only been a couple of weeks though.
:)
 
abandonallhope said:
Well doing normal everyday stuff in linux is so much of a chore, I suppose it could be described as hacking your own system.
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Most of the major flavours run all the same applications I would run under Windows anyway when it comes to the day to day stuff like office suites, email clients and web browsers.

I agree that when it comes to some of the more obscure operations Linux can be more than a little frustrating but everyday stuff seems pretty well covered at this point.
 
abandonallhope said:
Well doing normal everyday stuff in linux is so much of a chore, I suppose it could be described as hacking your own system.
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That would be assuming its desktop linux you are referring to. Most of this is related to servers.
Pointless troll comment is pointless.
 
RoMark said:
Lol Amen to that.
The GUI stuff is easy and although I'm not new to in line commands, the linux metod of thinking and structure and terminology still baffles me. It has only been a couple of weeks though.
:)
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The only thing about it is learning the commands, when you know those it gets really easy.
When you have spent some time with it and are familiar you will wonder why other command line interfaces are so backwards.
 
who needs a livecd when you can just pass "single" to the kernel


edit: oh, thats what the article is about. Fancy that!
 
Rocket-Boy said:
The only thing about it is learning the commands, when you know those it gets really easy.
When you have spent some time with it and are familiar you will wonder why other command line interfaces are so backwards.
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You also need to get familiar with the directory structure but IMO the directory structure of a Linux system is so much more intuitive than Windows systems anyway.
 
If any person can simply walk up to your Linux server and reboot it into single user mode, you've got bigger problems than not having followed the lock-down steps.

That said is a detailed article and certainly worth reading and implementing.
 
ponder said:
Thing is long time back I would have sounded just like abandonallhope so I can see where some people are coming from.
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Yeah, it's not for everyone. But I find it to be a far better way to perform tasks in the system- feels more controlled...
 
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