Re: Possibility to avoid passwd change for root?

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Werner Puschitz wrote:

>
> You can protect the single user mode by adding the following line to
> the /etc/inittab file after the entry for si::sysinit...:
> ~~:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin
>
> By this way, you don't have to hardcode the password in /etc/lilo.conf
> to protect the single user mode.
>
> Werner
>
Too easy to get around.  Instead of using "linux single", you use
"linux init=/bin/bash".



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