hm, what I forgot - no I don't mean removing the entry for runlevel 1.
relevant part of my inittab:
# What to do in single-user mode.
~~:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin
HTH & HAND,
Gina
On Sat, 12 May 2001 11:59:26 +0200, Gina Lanik writes:
>
>other people on this list have said what I felt like saying, so there's
>only one thing left... if you're -absolutely- sure that you don't want
>this maintenance feature up you can go and change /etc/inittab
>accordingly (as it is done by default on a Debian system).
>
>cheers,
>
>Gina
>
>On Fri, 11 May 2001 22:24:40 EDT, "Linda MacPhee-Cobb" writes:
>>Hi All,
>>
>>I have been painstakingly going through the lilo documentation. I have not
>>found in the documentation, on my computer or at sunsite, a single reference
>>to this back door into my computer. It is not even documented in the source
>>code.
>>
>>The fact we have a back door that allows root access that is undocumented is
>>something I would expect from M$ not linux.
>>
>>Why isn't this documented in an easy to find location? That is very
>>troubling. Especially since linux users scream bloody murder when back
>>doors are found in Windows.
>>
>>If I wanted a computer OS that didn't need a password I would use Windows
>>95. One of the reasons for choosing linux was the security. Right now
>>Win2000 looks like a better option. The only way to boot this machine is
>>from the hard drive. I am not so stupid as to forget root password, nor am
>>I pleased that the people writing this system appear to have set it up for
>>fools.
>>
>>If there is one undocumented back door there are many.
>>
>>Who are these back doors built in for? Clearly not the users or there would
>>be documentation.
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