On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 04:01:24 +0000, "Payal Rathod"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> How do I disallow booting into single user mode?
> The thing is that I don't want my users to boot into single user mode
> and change root password while I am away on vacation.
> I am using lilo on Mandrake 9.1.

Add the "restricted" option for your boot images.
label=MyLinuxKernel restricted password=PasswordHere read-only
root=/dev/hdXX

then, prolly chmod 600 /etc/lilo.conf, and then do /sbin/lilo -v

Maybe also add ~~:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin to /etc/inittab, so it asks for
passwd even when entering RL 0
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