It can now silently bypass the authentication process of Windows based operating systems. It was mainly created for Ubuntu, later the author has made a few add-ons to cover some other Linux distributions.Įntire Kon-Boot was written in pure x86 assembly, using old grandpa-geezer TASM 4.0. For Windows systems, it allows you to enter any password protected profile without any knowledge of the password. In the current compilation state, it allows you to log into a Linux system as the ’ root’ user without typing the correct password or to elevate privileges from current user to root.