Re: [techtalk] Forgotten root password

[Nils Philippsen]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Dan Nguyen wrote:

> That's not always necessarily true.  On RH systems single user mode
> drops the system into a shell.  However on more ``secure'' systems it
> run sulogin, which requires the root password to be able to get to a
> shell.  The more generic solution, like everyone else has said is

Everyone should have "password ..." and "restricted" options set in
/etc/lilo.conf. Anyway -- you can't stop me. I've got a screwdriver :-).

Nils
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