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Root Shell – The Holy Grail

By On October 9, 2008 · 1 Comment

The “Holy Grail” of any attack is the creation of a root shell. On UNIX/Linux, the “root” user is a superuser account that has the capability of running any process on the machine. An exploit will attempt to gain root access to a system by obtaining a root shell prompt from which any command [...]

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