On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 11:14:36PM -0400 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
Mandi thought:
>
> For desktop unix, if you have need to worry about the physical security of
> the hosts you are deploying, get rid of init 1 in /etc/inittab. Comment
> out the lines about runlevel 1. You can also passw
Heya --
>> But again, if it is a 'recovery thing' where is the documentation?
>> Why wasn't it clearly in the manual?
>
> Which manual? There is no "Linux manual" per se. It depends on how
> well the individual distro documents things and writes their manual.
Quite. Also, you can't e
Hi, Linda and everyone else,
> But again, if it is a 'recovery thing' where is the documentation? Why
> wasn't it clearly in the manual?
Which manual? There is no "Linux manual" per se. It depends on how well the
individual distro documents things and writes their manual. It *is* in the
curr
At 5/11/01 07:47 PM , Linda MacPhee-Cobb wrote:
>But again, if it is a 'recovery thing' where is the documentation? Why
wasn't >it clearly in the manual?
I can't recall how many manuals I've seen that mention "linux single".
Heck, I just advised a friend to boot in single-user mode a couple
At 5/11/01 08:14 PM , Mandi wrote:
>Not to mention that you can get the administrator password on a win2k or
>nt box in a matter of hours (in many cases) with L0phtcrack anyway, so why
>would you need to reboot? :)
Serious answer: Because you changed an IP address, or nearly any other
network
Linda MacPhee-Cobb wrote:
>
> But again, if it is a 'recovery thing' where is the documentation? Why
> wasn't it clearly in the manual?
I don't know. I didn't write the Mandrake manual.
Excuse me, I'll just stuff it into the techtalk FAQ - the only Linux
manual I *DO* have control over...
"init 1" isn't meant to be "a hidden way in". If you're logged in
remotely, it's not a way in at all, because running it will shutdown all
networking on the host and kick your butt out.
Not to mention that you have to be a superuser to run init anyway.
Init exists in all System V based unices
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Hi,
Thank you, I have added a password to lilo.
I am sorry but it is not documented in any of the lilo documentation
This is extremely well documented. I know it's in the Linux book we wrote.
:) Again, if you want to remove it just edit the inittab. I'm not sure
where you looked for this info, but any Linux recovery information will talk
about the single and emergency runlevel options. I know other UNIX syst
