[99605] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Forget root password, help.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Taylor)
Mon Nov 16 02:01:54 1998
From: Bob Taylor <brtaylor@inreach.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 15 Nov 1998 19:14:02 CST."
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Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 22:56:26 -0800
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In message <Pine.LNX.4.04.9811151913330.506-100000@gspawt.ruthfd1.tn.home.com>,
Kevin Smith writes:
> 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...
LILO > linux init=bash
Oops! :-)
Bob
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