On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Sharninder wrote:

> > Dude, hasn't it occured to you that if somebody can boot in from
> > a floppy, he can load whatever kernel he likes onto that floppy
> > as well, and then mount whatever partitions he wants from there?
> 
> well, all this occurred to me ... but what i don't know why no one
> is even trying to answer what i am asking ... is there a way to stop
> the linux kernel going into single user mode by giving the paramter

you miss the point here.  Say you patch your kernel so that it ignores the
boot parameter, should be fairly easy to change. But this does not achieve 
any thing at all.

I can still go with my floppy/cd having my own os ( neednt be linux at 
all) and boot your pc from it if its accesible. You can disable 
booting  from floppy/network/cdrom etc but there just cant be any security 
without physical security. 

-- sreangsu


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