On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:04:15 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: > >>>>You mean "Busybox"? :-? >>> >>> I do not know - it appears when something wrong during boot process. >> >>It should be printed out, something like: >> >>*** >>BusyBox v1.10.2 (Debian x-x-x-x) Built-in shell (xxx) *** > > Oh, no. It's not my case. Nor I have the packages installed.
Hmmm... are you sure? It is installed by default in all of my Lenny systems and also in wheezy. sm01@stt008:~$ dpkg -l | grep busy ii busybox 1:1.10.2-2 Tiny utilities for small and embedded system >>If that's what you get it cames out when there is a problem when >>booting, for instance, a missing kernel module for the hard disk >>controller, a bad hard disk identifier at GRUB's menu file, etc. So >>instead having you no option at all and display a black screen (because >>the system is halted), we are presented with the BusyBox. > > That's great, just why not to protect it w/ a password prompt? - Or > again, "nobody listening, no exploits are available", etc?! ;o) It is very easy to access into a system when you stand in front of it, I mean, when you have physical access to the computer. Unless you have secured GRUB with a password, you can append "init=/bin/sh" to the kernel line at boot menu and then again, no password will be prompted for you. >>> That's good, but how I can provide password prompting? I remember in >>> past times there was a prompt for Ctrl-d to press and type root's >>> password. >> >>I think that's a different thing :-? > > For sure, it is. > >>For example, when you go fall into "init 1" you are prompted with root's >>password to get into the maintenance console or continue by pressing >>Ctrl +D, so here you are indeed asked for root's password because you >>are inside the full shell and not inside the limited BusyBox >>environment. > > So, where I get into - in my case - having no busybox installed, yet > password-less root shell is granted? 8-0 I'm not sure about the scenario you are describing... I think busybox is installed by default and comes up when there are boot problems. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.12.03.14.55...@gmail.com