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Re: Forget root password, help.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward Ing)
Sun Nov 15 20:14:13 1998
From: "Edward Ing" <ingal@home.com>
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Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 20:17:35 -0500
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Ah! Thanks for the info
-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Smith <kevin@mtsu.edu>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Sunday, November 15, 1998 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: Forget root password, help.
>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...
>
>-----
>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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