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Is "linux single" a security concern?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Powell)
Thu Oct 31 17:06:31 1996
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Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 16:36:58 -0500
From: Chris Powell <helios@brickandivy.com>
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I booted my box to try out the "linux single" lilo option, and I'm concerned
that the resulting unprotected root shell is a fairly serious security
concern.
Not all machines can be physically secured (e.g. in a large office building,
perhaps) and it seems that it would be a trivial way to gain root access to
any Linux box.
Am I misunderstanding something fairly obvious here?
Thanks,
Chris Powell
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