Hi Jack I'm sure there's some option for it, I used SuSE for years in my previous job, and it's preconfigured to do that.
In FreeBSD you can change the console from insecure and that does it, Linux must have another option, but google won't reveal it (yet). Guy > > Hello > > > > How can I force the use of the root password to drop into single user > > mode? > > > > Yesterday I discovered that my mandrake 9.1 doesn't ask the root > > password when going to single user mode (from LILO). The security > > profile is set to high. > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > Guy > > > > that's a tough one... if you think about it, you needed root privileges > to issue the telinit 1 or boot from LILO (well not root, but physical > access trumps root any day) in the first place, Single-user mode is > password-less on every Unix I've ever met (FreeBSD, OpenBSD IIRC, > Solaris, about twenty Linuces). Since you may be there to deal with a > missing or corrupt /etc/passwd & /etc/shadow, not asking for the > password is the difference between requiring a rescue disk and not. > > I think the best you can do is to set a BIOS password, a LILO password, > and/or to encrypt the partition. > -- > Jack Coates > Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... > http://www.monkeynoodle.org/resume.html > >
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