Imagin you forgot your root password after a long vacation at work or you are new to a company and need to get care of old systems with no known credentials or documentation of the system. So what do you do? – Reinstall the hole machine would be a solution but all data will be …
While infilatrating a system it is mostly necessary no escalate your privileges to another user or the root user. While learning about priv-esc on linux-system I often used a simple technique which is based on misconfigured binarys. For example if a lower priv user is allowed to run a program with sudo and no password …