Note that funny enough the password is there in clear text so change the mode of lilo.conf to be 700 or something.. Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Alex Shnitman wrote: | Hi, &pe;&vav;&pe;&vav;&bet;! | | On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 07:05:10PM +0200, you wrote the following: | | > Anyone knows how one can secure a Linux box localy against booting it in | > single mode by anwanted persons ? | > At least in my RH boxes everyone can type "linux single" in LILO prompt and | > then passwd to kick me off. | | Add the following lines to lilo.conf: | | password = m2D92n3zf | restricted | | Then adding parameters to the kernel will require entering this | password. (Booting without adding parameters won't.) | | You may also want to make sure that the BIOS is set up to not boot | from the floppy drive, and that there's a password on the BIOS. That's | about as secure as you can get with it. Be advized that generally, if | someone has physical access to the box he can own it in *some* way, so | it's OK for e.g. university computer rooms where there are people who | look from time to time that people aren't unscrewing boxes and taking | the hard drives out, but it's not 100% foolproof, and it can't be. | | | -- | Alex Shnitman | http://www.debian.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] +----------------------- | http://alexsh.hectic.net UIN 188956 PGP key on web page | E1 F2 7B 6C A0 31 80 28 63 B8 02 BA 65 C7 8B BA | | For Sale: Parachute. Only used once, never opened, small stain. | | ================================================================= | To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with | the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command | echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | ннннннннннннннннннннни unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
