Ah, i know what your missing. The modification to rc.local wasn't the
cause, just the reason it was noticed. The cause was "linux single" 


On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, James J. Capone wrote:

> I can understand that part. I am baffled at what he changed in the rc.local..
> 
> The only other thing I could think of would be to change the /etc/inittab file 
> to run login shells instead of login managers.  There is nothing I can think of 
> to run in rc.local that can bypass the login security.
> 
> You can run an expect script to address one of the login managers and log in 
> automatically, but that's not a simple change.  You could start up an X session 
> as a user, I suppose, but the original poster never mentioned what the change 
> to the file was or how he did it.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> James J. Capone
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jose Alberto Abreu [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 9:32 PM
> To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject:      Re: [newbie] Lack of security when booting in Linux single
> 
> 
> I think he meant that theres a security hole since he wasnt asked for a
> login&passwd....
> 
> 
> 

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