A Mon, 31 Mar 2003 14:34:19 -0500 (EST)
wamb4060 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> �crivait:

> http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3623
> 
>            Product: kernel
>          Component: booting
>            Summary: kernel automatically root with failsafe
>            Version: 2.4.21-0.13mdk
>           Platform: PC
>         OS/Version: All
>             Status: UNCONFIRMED
>           Severity: major
>           Priority: P2
>         AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>         ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 
> I've just installed mandrake...I'm not such an expert, so I'll try...
> (first: I have 2 boot images: initrd.img and initrd....mdk.img: is this normal?)
> But the real issue:
> When I start up with lilo, I can also choose failsafe. When I choose this
> evrything boots and(like with previous version) I would expect that a password
> is prompted. Nothing happens! I'm looged in as root(checked: whoami -> root) and
> normally root has as shell bash, but now it's sh....What's happening?????
> For the moment I've removed failsafe, but I suppose there are workarounds...
> This is not really good for the securit:
> it goes: tell init to go to single user mode...
> and I'm immediately root...
> 
> I've changed nothing of init(don't now anything about those files...) or any of
> the boot files theirself...


Simple solution (dirty);
rm -rf /etc/rc1.d
ln -s /etc/rc2.d /etc/rc1.d

I think msec can protect the station against this "false" problem
when choosing the security level in the Mandrake Control Center



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