Anirban Biswas wrote:
> 
> Hi ,
>         It is a very old & known thing pal & acctually it is not a hacking since to
> do the below things you have to get access to the machine physically else you
> can not do that .
> 
> Also the following lines in lilo.conf will pervernt it
> restricted
> password="passwprd"
> 
> will solve the problem but the better thing is one should use grub.
> 
> Since any body can log as nornal user & then read lilo.conf to get the
> password.

No, they cannot, as long as /etc/lilo.conf is owned by root and has
permissions -rwx------

- Manas Laha

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