Hello, Rodrigo!
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Rodrigo Ormonde wrote:
>>A more faster way will be reboot (Ctrl-Alt-Del) the machine.
>>At the boot prompt, type linux init=/bin/sh
>>LILO: linux init=/bin/sh
>>You will login without any password.
>>Then, change the password with 'passwd' command.
> Is there any way to block this ? I mean, to ask for root password even
>when starting Linux in single user mode ?
for this particular case, you can teach all shells to not to run if
getpid()==1, or ask root password before running. And don't place
home directories and /tmp on root filesystem, or all be lost :)
You can also force kernel to ignore 'init=' option.
Bye.
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