Single User

[Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe]

Hi,

When I start my system using the "single" parameter at LILO prompt, the
system boots into runlevel 1, alright. But there's no login prompt for the
root password. It just assumes root login and starts with su priviledges
How can that be?

If this happens on a network, it can spell trouble if anybody gets physical
access to the system. Is there a workaround?

Sameer.