On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 06:04:01PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: | need root priviledges even for that. But then there's still lilo that | wants to write to random places on your disk. That is where the security
Random places? Sounds dangerous <wink>. | aspect of it forces you to really be root. Or trade in lilo for grub, | maybe (any grub-groupies in the audience?). Yeah, I'm a grub fan. I haven't built a kernel with debian yet, but I did it a lot with RH 5.2 (my first distro) because I didn't understand how to configure modules, but I'll add my $0.02 anyways. With grub you only need to tweak your /boot/grub/menu.lst file to point to the proper kernel image. You don't even _have_ to do that. You can enter the proper options at boot time (ie at the prompt). If you wnat the changes to be permanent (edit menu.lst) then you only need enough permission to edit that file (shouldbe root, unless you want ot leave your pboot system open for cracking). To enter at boot time it depends -- grub allows setting a password and unless that password is entered at the boot prompt, it doesn't allow access to the command line (you can only chose from the predefined choices in the menu). -D
