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Posted by hoangvmpc 13 hours ago

Knoppix(www.knopper.net)
257 points | 103 commentspage 7
buzzwords 8 hours ago|
Omg great memories.
k310 4 hours ago||
I have begged Klaus to update Knoopix. I'll send money.

GO FUND KLAUS.

PLEASE.

mempko 9 hours ago||
This brings me back. Used the live cd (then later thumb drive) at my university whenever I needed to use the computers. Would just reboot into it.
unethical_ban 9 hours ago||
I love that so many people have fond memories, and I assume it says something about the state of bootable linux distros that Knoppix is not as unique anymore.

Knoppix was my first experience with Linux over 20 years ago; my brother-in-law introduced me to it and it was really neat. "My computer isn't just Windows!"

Now with major distros offering live sessions in their installer, you can just hop into Ubuntu/Fedora/Arch.

hit8run 11 hours ago||
Brings back memories. One of my earlier Linux touch points. There was also this sibling Kanotix. Good times.
whalesalad 8 hours ago||
I used knoppix (and later SLAX) in high school to reboot shared computers (library, labs, etc) and then extract the SAM file from the C:\ drive. I would shuttle the file home on a USB stick and crack it overnight. After doing this on a handful of computers I ended up having virtually every teacher/admin password in the school, including the domain admin which was no shit all lowercase "north". The crack was so fast for weeks I thought it was a mistake and never even attempted to use it.

The most interesting thing was the patterns you could see with various teachers and pw reset policies. Some had themes like seasonal, others would take the current month and tack-on a number.

I ended up getting expelled for using that domain admin account to poke around. Had to transfer to a different school and was perma-banned from touching a computer for the rest of my time there. It ended up being a blessing in disguise, I had a lot more fun and grew up a lot at the other, larger high school. I still recall my guidance counselor helping me setup my classes for senior year... "ok, yeah and we'll put you in programming for your elective... OH WAIT... you aren't allowed to be anywhere near a computer, ceramics it is". Ceramics ended up being a blast!

protocolture 2 hours ago|
I built a fake Novell login screen using VB6, it would save the users credentials to disk in plaintext, and then reboot, presenting the correct login screen which would work.

I ended up scraping a whole bunch of credentials, even teacher creds, but they were always permissioned. Math teacher had a single folder where math stuff was dumped but couldn't escape that.

One day we were sitting in one of the computer labs, and written on the board was just:

U: training P: training

with no effort having been made to erase it.

That turned out to be effectively complete teacher level access. They couldn't decide what to do with a bunch of student teachers so just gave them unnamed creds with access to all subjects. And they left the account active for 12 months after the training program. By then, we had scavved up the credentials of a teacher who had been at the school since its inception, and thus had done every job and had the same sort of teacher god rights. His password was just redrocket or something silly.

I had exams, exam answers, notes on student performance, basically everything possible for 3 years. I am so glad there was no logging or anything sensible or I would have been expelled too.

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