On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Steve Feehan wrote:

> Andy Schuler wrote:
> >  (sorry if this gets posted twice)
> > 
> > 
> >     I know with FreeBSD it is possible to setup single user mode to require the
> > root password. Is it possible to do this on RH 6.2? Or possibly disable
> > single user mode entirely?
> > 
> > 
> > -shoe
> > 
> 
> Other than a lilo password, you can also make init use sulogin in
> single user mode ( which was the original question ). To do this
> add the following line to your /etc/inittab
> 
> ~~:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin
> 
> Although the lilo password has the added functionality of 
> preventing users from passing arguments at the LILO: prompt.

Which comes in handy as a way to prevent:

linux init=/bin/sh



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