On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Chris wrote: > Just a point of note: > > If your brother has physical access to the machine there is no way you can > stop him from getting root access. > > You can increase the difficulty by setting the bios to only boot from HDD > and then locking the bios - but if he's smart enough that you have to > worry about the root password, he's going to know how to reset the bios. > In addition, if you have dos/windoze installed as well, and he can run it, > he can most likely reset your bios without even taking the case off (use > one of the numerous bios hacking programs around).
If it is possible to get a Lilo prompt at boot time or to start Linux using Loadlin, it is much simpler to get root acess than you think. Just give the argument 'init=/bin/bash' (without quotes) to the kernel and you'll get a root shell without questions, because the kernel runs bash (as root) instead of init. Remco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
