You can add the folling line to the /etc/inittab file to require the root
password be provided to login via single user mode. This of course will
not help the person who forgot their root password but it will keep one
from just rebooting to single user to get in. You need the "~~"'s.
~~:S:wait:/bin/sulogin
-Connie Sieh
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Bret Hughes wrote:
> John Aldrich wrote:
>
> > Put a password in the LILO so that if someone tries to do a
> > linux single they still have to know the root password.
> > John
> >
> >
>
> Don't forget to change it if you change the root password or the guy you were
> trying to keep out still has an easy way in.
>
> Bret
>
>
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