On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Ward William E PHDN wrote:

> 2) Only if you know where the boot kernal is... he didn't
> mention that one.  Of course, a lot of people leave the/a
> boot kernal in the default....

Hit the tab key at the LILO prompt :)  Hey presto, all kernels
available in the lilo.conf file.

> 3) It doesn't give network access... at least not initially.
> You have to change your init level to get that.
> 4) It doesn't give X-Windows... same as 3.  Of course, if
> you change the root password, you can then bring it up to 
> level 3 or level 5, and regain root access....

IIRC, Linux forces you to re-login if you change from 1 -> 3 or 5.  Of
course, if you get 1, vi /etc/passwd, null the field, passwd command.

-- 

Duncan Hill                     Sapere aude
One net to rule them all, One net to find them,
One net to bring them all, and using Unix bind them.



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