On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Puneet Kishor wrote: > Although Ken does have an interesting point on the security issue... but > I see Bill's point... the computer should still ask for the pwd in > Single-user mode as well.
No, it shouldn't. The whole reason for having single-user capability is that it lets you get past security mechanisms like passwords for situations where it is absolutely necessary to do so -- like say when the sysadmin gets hit by a bus and the intern has to log into the server so that the password can be reset. The assumption is that you're going to have to trust the people with physical access to the machine, because not having an emergency access mechanism can make the machine useless someday. I wasn't trying to pick on Bill by asking -- if in fact he was having problems logging in due to a hung Apache initialization, then yes this would be an appropriate way to fix it. (Another worth trying would be to ssh in, assuming that ssh had a chance to launch before http got stuck.) He just didn't come out & say this explicily, and I wasn't thinking of it myself, so I just wanted clarification there. If he wasn't in this kind of bind, then it looked like -- for the poor old hardware I'm running -- a 15 minute round-trip solution to a 5 minute round-trip problem. :) -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ "More war soon. You know how it is." -- mnftiu.cc
