*Disclaimer: For education purpose only. Use at your own risk.*

Few days ago, Ahlspiess from TBD.My forum has released a script which is able to find any security holes that lies in a Joomla! based website. From the feedback in the forum or blogs, I can see most of them do not know how to use the script. (or maybe they just pretending don’t know )

To all skiddies, please pay full attention here!

Level: Beginner
Estimate time to finish: 5 minutes
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Most command in the BackTrack 5 are same as Ubuntu or other common Linux I guess. So in this article, I would like to share some of the commands that are important in managing BackTrack’s users. If you are looking for how to add non-root or normal user in BackTrack, I already posted the tutorial in last few weeks.

How to login as other user in terminal

Open up your terminal. Then write the code as below:

su - <username>

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Did you had ever heard about BackTrack? BackTrack is one of the linux distro based on ubuntu which is dedicated to digital forensics and penetration testing use. The latest version of BackTrack is BackTrack 5 R1.

BackTrack provides users with easy access to a comprehensive and large collection of security-related tools ranging from port scanners to password crackers. Support for Live CD and Live USB functionality allows users to boot BackTrack directly from portable media without requiring installation, though permanent installation to hard disk is also an option.

Other than that, the new BackTrack 5 R1 also comes with several flavours and architectures. You can download it either in GNOME or KDE, in 32/64 bit. You also can download it via torrent if you want.

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