[99581] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Forget root password, help.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Smith)
Sun Nov 15 20:09:30 1998
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 19:14:02 -0600 (EST)
From: Kevin Smith <kevin@mtsu.edu>
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On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Edward Ing wrote:
> Linux thus seems quite insecure.
> If someone has physical access to your machine, they could go in and change
> your root password on you. You of course could change it backe when you
> noticed something went wrong, but within that time he could have done
> something horrible.
so why not take advantage of the "restricted" option of lilo, to prevent
people from passing options to the kernel (such as single) without putting
in a password...
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Kevin Smith
kevin@mtsu.edu
Your motives for doing whatever good deed you may have in mind will be
misinterpreted by somebody.
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