On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 07:42:33AM +0000, Richard Adams wrote:
> If you are worried about someone rebooting the machine who has access to
> the keyboard, then you as root could add the passwd option to /etc/lilo.conf
> and rerun lilo, then only root can start the machine up with the defined

Besides, there's a handful of ways besides 'linux single' to get single
user mode or better.

Like 'linux emergency', or 'linux init=/bin/bash'

On Debian, single asks you for the root password before it lets you in.
(emergency doesn't)


Hamish
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