[98101] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Unidentified subject!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gordon Messmer)
Fri Nov 6 15:41:31 1998
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 12:37:52 -0800
From: Gordon Messmer <yinyang@eburg.com>
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Tomas Buday wrote:
> ...it won't do for me. i don't want to protect the BIOS
> nor the lilo with a password....i want to be able to
> restart the system from outside.
Hmm...if you get the system to boot single mode from the "outside",
what then? inetd isn't running in single user mode, there aren't even
any network drivers loaded (typically). Setting these to run would
effectively remove single user mode's efficacy.
>
> i know i can remove the prompt and delay lines in /etc/lilo.conf,
> but this makes it impossible to boot single when in emergency.
No, not really. If you reboot the system and press SHIFT or CTRL
before lilo loads it will give you the prompt. The only dangerous
thing I know of is to use "prompt" without a timeout value. (user
intervention is REQUIRED).
Perhaps you could tell us why you need to boot into runlevel 1? Or
why you are concerned about a password prompt? If you think someone
may try to break in at the console, I'd change:
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r no
to:
ca::ctrlaltdel:/bin/true
in the /etc/inittab file.
MSG
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