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Interrupt the boot process in order to gain access to a system

Posted on March 13, 2025 by Jeff
init=/bin/bash
/usr/sbin/load_policy -i
mount -o remount,rw /
passwd
touch ./autorelabel
/sbin/reboot -f
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We’re back again…

Posted on March 17, 2022October 11, 2024 by Jeff

After a long stretch of not cleaning up the posts, I really cleaned them up.. Be ready for all new stuff!

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And we’re back…

Posted on March 5, 2015October 11, 2024 by Jeff

The DNS forwarding seems to have been implemented now.

Thanks to Jason Eckert for his help in getting this transfer completed.

Now to start uploading articles….

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Moving to new hosts

Posted on January 4, 2015October 11, 2024 by Jeff

We’re moving to a new host.. keep your fingers crossed!

 

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