2026-05-03 08:09 UTC
Yesterday at the hackerspace, a friend had forgotten the password to their (demo / showcase) computer.
Luckily, the convenient new sysadmin tool “copy.fail” saved the day! With one line, we could get a root shell and set a new password 😂
Way easier than rebooting into init=/bin/bash. So convenient! 2026 is truly the year of Linux on the desktop :P
Replies (7)
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@mkoek@mastodon.nl 2026-05-03 08:37
@zekjur you need a user shell to run it from though? Or is it remotely exploitable? @jpmens
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@vdq@social.vdqqdv.de 2026-05-03 08:41
@zekjur it is a shame that they introduced this feature in 2017 and no one knew about it until now
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@grabbi_it@defcon.social 2026-05-03 09:45
@zekjur you forgot an “only” before “on the desktop” 😉
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@Lioh@social.anoxinon.de 2026-05-03 17:17
@zekjur having spent the whole weekend mitigating hundreds of different systems, I must admit that I find this far away from being funny.
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@toxy@mastodon.acc.sunet.se 2026-05-03 22:51
@zekjur I thought you already had to be logged in as an unprivileged user? Was someone else already logged in on a different account?
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@init_richi@social.chaotikum.org 2026-05-04 04:02
@zekjur My new default alias, instead of breaking sudo files
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@kkarhan@c.im 2026-05-04 04:36
@zekjur lmao! Now try that with a full-disk encryption!