Thanks!!! I should have RTFM, but I thought I remembered all lilo had to offer...
Thanks again, Liran. --- http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~liranz/ On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: > Why don't you just restrict booting by using LILO's "password=" and > "restricted" in /etc/lilo.conf? Here is what the man page for "lilo.conf" > says: > > password=password > Protect the image by a password. > > restricted > A password is only required to boot the image if > parameters are specified on the command line (e.g. > single). > > To prevent modification via a rescue boot floppy you can probably disable > booting via floppy in the BIOS and then password protect the BIOS using > the BIOS's own security features. > > -Ossama > > On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > We consider putting Linuxes (or should it be Linuces? )in the classes, but > > don't want the students to be able to boot single user and then rm -r *, > > or open accounts and try to get into the network. > > > > Is there an easy was to put a password on single user boot? > > > > If not, I have and idea how to prevent it: > > 1. Repartition that way that there is another primary partition of about 1 > > MB in size. > > 2. dd the kernel to that partition (after it was 'rdev'ed to the real root > > partition. > > 3. Make this partition the only one bootable. > > 4. Disable the possibility to boot from the floppy drive in the (password > > protected) bios. (And the computers are locked so they (the students) > > can't clear the bios settings with the jumpers) > > > > I think that in this was the students won't be able to boot single user. > > > > What do you say? > > Is there an easier way to do it? > > > > > > TIA, > > Liran. > > --- > > http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~liranz/ > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
