Linux Password Reset

To demonstrate how easy it is to break into a computer you have physical access to we are going to do a password reset on your Linux VM you should have set up in the Computing Fundamentals course.

This will be the same for the vast majority of Linux Operating Systems, but a general rule is that you can just Google how to do it for the OS you are on. I actually had to do this attack the week before I wrote this section because I accidentally corrupted the password file on my box (protip: don't test the rootkit you are writing on your actual machine) and couldn't get back in. Had to do this reset to make a new account and recover everything. See! Hacking is Useful!

This maneuver is generally known as a "Grub Bootloader attack".

Here is a starting point. https://itsfoss.com/how-to-hack-ubuntu-password/

Write a couple sentences about what you learned from this.