On Thursday 26 April 2007, Stuart Jansen wrote: > On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 12:03 -0600, Nicholas Leippe wrote: > > On some distros, even single user asks for the root password. You can get > > past that by passing init=/bin/sh to the kernel. If you have /bin/bb, > > even better. Where to go from there is left as an exercise for the > > reader. > > Using init=/bin/sh on modern systems with udev, etc. is not for the > faint of heart.
Which is why I left it as an exercise for the reader. ;) > If your distro requires the root password to enter > single user mode, it'd probably be easier to just boot from a rescue > disk. SUSE is an example of an annoying[1] distro that requires the root > password for single user mode, but in compensation the SUSE rescue disk > is kinda snazzy. Likewise for Gentoo, on both accounts. > [1] If you have enough access to reboot into single user mode, you've > got enough access to boot from alternative media or pull the drives. > Requiring the root password doesn't do much to improve security. Yep. When there's physical access to the box, all bets on security are off. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
