[99704] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Forget root password, help.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Burke)
Mon Nov 16 16:57:40 1998
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 16:40:28 -0500
From: Tom Burke <tomii@erols.com>
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In lilo.conf, you can supply a password for single user mode.
Then, when someone reboots the machine & enters "linux single", they
are prompted for a password.
Jeremy Domingue wrote:
> If your server is in an area accessible by other people and you are
> concerned about it, you could always lock the keyboard. But if someone wants
> to do damage to your server, it doesn't matter if you have NT, SCO, BSD, or
> any other OS... if they have physical access to it, they can hurt it. Even
> if you have a nice secure locking case, they can still pull the plug on it
> and remove it from service.
>
> Basically, just be careful who you give physical access to...
>
> Jeremy Domingue
> jer@cybersurfers.net
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Edward Ing [mailto:ingal@home.com]
> >Sent: Sunday, November 15, 1998 4:12 PM
> >To: redhat-list@redhat.com
> >Subject: Re: Forget root password, help.
> >
> >
> >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.
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Jeremy Domingue <jer@cybersurfers.net>
> >To: redhat-list@redhat.com <redhat-list@redhat.com>
> >Cc: nupt89@hotmail.com <nupt89@hotmail.com>
> >Date: Sunday, November 15, 1998 7:04 PM
> >Subject: RE: Forget root password, help.
> >
> >
> >>Have you tried booting in single user mode? At the LILO prompt, just type
> >in
> >>'linux 1' (assuming that you kept the default label of 'linux' for your
> >>linux partition).
> >>
> >>Jeremy Domingue
> >
> >
> >
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