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>On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Song Jianping wrote:
>>> Today someone login my linux box by single user mode, and changes
>>> root password. It's very dangerous. Now i have to do the same thing
>>> to change it back. Can I restrict the access to single user mode?
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>>I've never tried it, but I believe the trick is to place the following two
>>lines in lilo.conf within the applicable image section (please check the
>>lilo
>>documentation to confirm):
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>> password=whatever
>> restricted
>Also consider setting a BIOS password
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