that file is called /bootsplash and it will be in the topmost directory of the miniroot filesystem contained in your initrd.gz

The first 38 bytes are header information (x,y coordinates and width,...

No, thank you.

It's easy to get jaded about linux and to want to chuck it in and go back to a system that "just works" (tm). It's nice every now and again to solve a complex real-world problem in...

In your example, the first passphrase ends at an exclamation mark, not a period. How am I supposed to know which symbols mark the end of a passphrase and which ones should be embedded?

Assuming...

Glad I could help you before ammael said that changing anything in BT wasn't "supported" (seriously, besides providing package updates, what support do they think they're providing?) and closed the...

sed 's/\([a-zA-Z]\)[a-zA-Z]*/\1/g; s/ //g; s/\([^a-zA-Z]\)/\1\n/g' <input

If you want something that "just works" then 64-bit Linux isn't for you.

I agree, which is why I removed Plymouth from my initrd: I like to look at information, not pictures of dragons.

I primarily use BT from a VM in my lab at home, or from a live image. In both of...

Yes and no.

A lot of tools that come with backtrack need root privilege to work properly, but a lot of them don't. If you're pentesting a webapp, for example, then you could quite easily get away...

OK, that one is created by Plymouth and the files you want to change are inside your initrd.gz



# mkdir x && cd x
# gunzip -c /path/to/initrd.gz | cpio -id


The files you want to change...

It's hard to know exactly which bootsplash you're talking about because BT5 is overrun with the things.

First there's the splash image that you get at the boot menu - that file is located at...

Urgh. Is this still a problem for people?

Seriously, all the devs have to do is include a 5-line shell script in /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks on the release image that everybody runs the...

fine, I'll install it myself.

For the record, I wasn't asking for it to be installed with the release image, I was only asking for it to be included in the repository alongside the hosts of far...

Yeah, I know how to install and configure Tor, I just figured I'd point out that it's missing from the package repository.

Tor seems to be missing from the 32-bit (I haven't checked 64) BT5 package repository.

It's easy enough to install manually, but since it's recommended by a number of other packages, I assume a...

The other day, I watched a friend of mine unlock his company blackberry phone so that he could read a message he had just received.

The company uses a BES to enforce a password complexity policy...

Great post JellyBelly.

I'd also recommend editing /opt/nessus/etc/nessus/nessusd.conf so that the line "auto_update = yes" is commented, and "listen_address" is set to "127.0.0.1" so as to...

is Windows Firewall enabled?

use fix-splash800 if you're going to run at 800x600.

I'm gonna take a wild guess here - does your PC have 512MB RAM?

If I've locked my keys in my home, then surely it's not a crime for me to jimmy open the lock or to climb in through a window? if I don't have the expertise myself, then surely hiring a locksmith to...

*sigh* it's 26^6 * 10^4 = 3089157760000 combinations, or 197706096640000 if you want mixed (upper & lowercase) alpha.

It's also a completely pointless exercise: at a thousand tries per second, it...

Add the string "debug=" to the end of your boot options.

In the fancy grub boot menu (the one with the picture of the dragon in the background), you can do this by hitting 'e' twice, and then...

corrected.

Apache Virtual Host documentation - Apache HTTP Server

Also, 172.16.0.0 through 172.31.255.255 is a reserved set of IP numbers for non-internet addressing. Google won't know...

This is covered in the howtos and in a thousand other threads before yours. Please try to find the answers for yourself before asking others to explain things - you'll almost always learn more that...

Who's going to buy a newspaper with a headline that reads "some stuff happened today, but nothing important"?