[NTLUG:Discuss] FW: motivating shady clients to payup

[jeremyb@univista.com]

Why am I scripting for money?    Well,  because it pays....   Why else?
When you have a customer with a need; you try to fill it. 
When there's a program out there that does the job; why write another one
that 
doesn't do it any better?  I'm sure as hell not going to attempt to rewrite
MRTG of Ntop for this. As far as scripting being a fundamental question for
a professional I'm not sure I follow you.  Do you mean to say that,  if I
were a professional I would not write scripts?  ...or that I would do them
for free?  What's your point?



-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Goldblatt [mailto:lists-ntlug at goldblatt.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 1:50 AM
To: discuss at ntlug.org
Subject: RE: [NTLUG:Discuss] FW: motivating shady clients to payup


>      cp /etc/passwd  /mnt/etc/passwd
>      cp /etc/shadow  /mnt/etc/shadow

I'll explain this, but honestly, the question makes me wonder why 
you're doing scripting for money.  Nothing personal, but wow ... 
awfully fundamental question for a professional.

copy /etc/password to /mnt/etc/passwd

The idea is that you slap the hard drive you gave them into a new 
machine as hard drive #2, mount it under /mnt.  This copies the 
active /etc/passwd file (on hdd #1, to which they have the 
passwords) and overwrites your passwd file (which now lives under 
/mnt/etc/passwd).  Set the machines back up the way they were 
originally, and all is good, if they did it right.  Your passwords are 
not only defeated, but you also don't have access to the box 
anymore either.

ag

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