Re: a simple Q

1999-03-16 Thread Ariel Biener
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Guy Cohen wrote: I think he means that he wants it to work like Solaris and IRIX and other SysVR4 OS's around there, that give you: Enter root password (or press Ctrl+D for ): This is given by sulogin, and AFAIK, latest RedHat versions are supposed to do that. --Ariel

Re: a simple Q

1999-03-16 Thread Guy Cohen
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Shachar Tal wrote: .| .|Hi, | .|How do I password-protect a single-user boot? Usually, you get a root .|prompt, and I want to password-protect it. If you mean you want to stop Lilo boots to single user mode by invoking 'linux/vmlinuz single' at the prompt, add a password= t

Re: a simple Q

1999-03-16 Thread Vadim Smelyansky
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Shachar Tal wrote: ST>How do I password-protect a single-user boot? Usually, you get a root ST>prompt, and I want to password-protect it. Which disribution you running? I always got (Enter root password or press Ctrl-D to continue): after I enter single user mode.

Re: a simple Q

1999-03-16 Thread Sergey Kiselev
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Shachar Tal wrote: > > Hi, > > How do I password-protect a single-user boot? Usually, you get a root > prompt, and I want to password-protect it. > > Thanks, > Shachar. > > add 1:S:respawn:/sbin/sulogin tty1 to /etc/inittab --

a simple Q

1999-03-16 Thread Shachar Tal
Hi, How do I password-protect a single-user boot? Usually, you get a root prompt, and I want to password-protect it. Thanks, Shachar.